Shotcut 25.07

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 25.07 changelog:

• Added a Whisper.cpp (GGML) model downloader to the Speech to Text dialog.
• A model is no longer included in the download and installation reducing their sizes.
• Improved the System theme to follow the operating system palette on Windows (darker and more contrast), and improved its appearance on macOS dark mode.
• Added Settings > Theme > System Fusion that combines the operating system palette with the monochrome, symbolic icons of the Fusion themes.
• Added an Outline video filter that uses the input alpha channel--useful with rich text or assets with a transparent background.
• This means that, like Drop Shadow, it will not work as expected when used after a text filter on a video or image clip. Rather, you must use a text clip (transparent color generator with text filter) on an upper track.

Other New Features

• Added the ability to drag the waveform peak line to adjust audio gain.
• Added Settings > Timeline > Adjust Clip Gain/Volume to turn off the above.
• Added rolling an edit/trim to Timeline:
• Hold Ctrl (command on macOS) while trimming to simultaneously trim the neighbor clip.
• Added a Soft Focus filter set.
• Added Audio/Video duration to the Slideshow Generator dialog, defaults to 4 hours.
• This facilitates using Slideshow Generator to make transitions between everything when including both video and images. (It still respects the source duration and in & out points; duration here is a maximum.)
• Surround Sound Mixing Improvements
• Added fader and surround balance to the Balance audio filter if channels > 2.

Added Channels toggle buttons to many audio filters:

• Band Pass
• Compressor
• Delay
• Downmix
• Equalizer: 3-Band
• Equalizer: 15-Band
• Equalizer: Parametric
• Expander
• Gain/Volume
• High Pass
• Low Pass
• Limiter
• Mute
• Noise Gate
• Notch

Added support for 4 channels in the Copy Channel audio filter.
For example, now you can:

• Copy stereo music to the rear channels and use the fader in the Balance filter to reduce its volume,
• Downmix spoken word into the center channel and apply a Band Pass filter to it, and
• Route music or sound effects to the low-frequency channels and apply a Low Pass filter to it.

Other Improvements

• Changed the default Export > Audio > Rate control to Average Bitrate for AAC, Opus, and MP3.
• Added the ability to add/use multiple Mask: Apply filters.
• Added support for Scrub While Dragging to trimming on the timeline.
• Added hold Shift to ripple-trim when Ripple is turned off.
• Added French (Canadian) and Lithuanian translations.

Fixes

• Fixed Mask: Apply with multiple Mask: Simple Shape (broke in v25.05)
• Fixed exporting projects containing only Generator clips on Windows (broke in v25.05).
• Fixed converting 10-bit full to limited range (broke in v25.01).
• Fixed dropdown menus using Settings > Theme > System on Windows.
• Fixed Balance and Pan audio muted channels if audio channels > 2.
• Fixed Export > Use hardware encoder fails with H.264 on macOS 15.
• Fixed Properties > Convert or Reverse for iPhone 16 Pro videos with Ambisonic audio.
• Fixed a single frame fade out filter would either mute or make black.
• Fixed repairing a project (e.g. broken file links) with proxy turned on.
• Fixed doing Freeze Frame on the first frame of a clip.

Download: ShotCut 25.07 | Portable | ARM64 ~200.0 MB (Open Source)
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