Shotcut 25.03.29

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k.

Editing Features

• Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
• Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the timeline
• 3-point editing
• Hide, mute, and lock track controls
• Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
• Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
• Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
• Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
• Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
• Drag-n-drop files from file manager
• Scrubbing and transport control

Video Effects

• Video compositing across video tracks
• HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
• 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
• Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
• Deinterlacing
• Auto-rotate
• Fade in/out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
• Video wipe transitions:
• bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image
• Track compositing/blending modes:
• Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color, HSL Luminosity.
• Video Filters:
• Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Blur, Brightness, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Mirror, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Rotate, Rutt-Etra-Izer, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Wave, White Balance
• Speed effect for audio/video clips

Hardware Support

• Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
• Leap Motion for jog/shuttle control
• Webcam capture
• Audio capture to system audio card
• Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, X11 screen, and Windows DirectShow devices
• Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
• DeckLink SDI keyer output
• OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component

Shotcut 25.01.25 changelog:

New Features

• Added Text style preset to Subtitles > Generate Text on Timeline.
• Added Copy Current and Copy All to Filters.
• Added the project Video Mode to the window title.
• Added Vertical and Horizontal parameters to the No Sync video filter.
• Added Toggle Filter Overlay to the Player menu.
• Added 360: Cap Top & Bottom and 360: Equirectangular Wrap video filters.
• Added a Not In a Bin smart bin to the Playlist.
• Added the ability to use Ctrl (Command on macOS) to constrain movement to the vertical or horizontal axis in all filters that use the rectangle visual control.
• Added #rgba, #yuv, #gpu, and #10bit tags to keywords in Filters for search.
• Added an icon to Timeline clips to indicate when they have filters.
• Added "ITU-R BT.2020" to Video Mode > Custom > Add and Output > Properties.

Improvements

• Reduced the range of Gamma and Gain in the Color Grading filter.
• Glaxnimate no longer launches automatically after Open Other > Animation > Add to Timeline. Now, you need to click Properties > Edit. This addresses the video background in Glaxnimate.

Upgraded dependencies

• Whisper.cpp 1.7.4
• bigsh0t 2.7

Fixes

• Fixed opening a project can be slow or make app unresponsive if Settings > Playlist > View mode is Icons (broke in v25.01).
• Fixed double-clicking a Playlist item that is in a Bin may open wrong clip.
• Fixed handling of Windows shortcuts and macOS aliases in Files.
• Fixed automatic pause--such as when adding a filter--does not update the player's play button state (broke in v25.01).
• Fixed a crash on multiple Timeline undo and redo operations.
• Fixed a crash bug after Undo and Redo after moving clips in Timeline.
• Fixed the Size, Position & Rotate filter's visual control with non-square pixels.
• Fixed trimming twice ruins zoom keyframes in Size, Position & Rotate filter.
• Block adding a new job that writes to the same file as a pending or running job.
• Fixed Paste filters is not adding an Undo item to History.
• Fixed the Amount keyframes button always disabled in the 360: Equirectangular to Stereogaphic video filter.
• Fixed key repeat for the previous/next shortcuts in Player menu.
• Fixed Export > Reframe causes Video > Scan mode to be interlaced even when it shows progressive.
• Fixed trim handles on Timeline clip when it is very short.
• Fixed Timeline > Split followed by multiple undo and redo may affect attached filters.
• Fixed playhead in Keyframes incorrect after switching filters.

Download: Shotcut 25.03.29 | Portable | ARM64 ~200.0 MB (Open Source)
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