Shotcut Video Editor

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Based on FFmpeg, the leading multimedia framework, Shotcut supports a large number of video formats and codecs, converts to and from popular video formats. It has many user-friendly features, such as intuitive interface, multi-format timelines, frame accurate seeking, drag-n-drop of assets, detailed media properties, recent files with search, playlist with thumbnail view, filter panel, and so on.

Shotcut Video Editor Features

Cross Platform & Codec Independent

• Cross platform support for Windows, Linux, and Mac
• Codec independent so does not rely on system codecs
• Can run as a portable app from external drive
• UI translations: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian
• Batch encoding with job control
• Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg
• Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
• Video quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)
• Perform integrity check of an audio/video file
• View detailed information about an audio/video file

Wide Format Support

• Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
• Supports popular image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP as well as image sequences
• No import required – native timeline editing
• Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
• Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
• Webcam capture
• Audio capture
• Support for 4K resolutions
• Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
• Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
• Color, text, noise, and counter generators
• EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
• Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
• Videos files with alpha channel – both reading and writing
• Tone mapping HDR to SDR

Audio Features

• Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
• Volume control
• Audio filters:
• Balance, Bass & Treble, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Invert, Limiter, Low Pass, Noise Gate, Normalize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass, Notch, Pan, Pitch, Reverb, Swap Channels
• Audio mixing across all tracks
• Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
• Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline
• JACK transport sync
• Tone generator
• Stereo, mono, and 5.1 surround
• Pitch compensation for video speed changes

Editing Features

• Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
• Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations
• 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, and export (render) 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
• Keyframes for filter parameters
• Detach audio from video clip
• Presets for most filters and Export – both supplied and user-created
• Sort playlist by name or creation/recording date
• Multi-select items in the playlist and timeline
• Create custom name for clips and enter comments about it
• Low resolution proxy editing to improve speed of seeking and eliminate or minimize scaling

Video Effects

• Video compositing across video tracks
• 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:
• None, Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color, HSL Luminosity.
• A huge number of video filters.
• 360° Video Filters:
• Equirectangular Mask, 360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear, 360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular, 360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular, 360: Stabilize, 360: Transform
• Speed effect for audio/video clips
• Reverse a clip
• Video scopes: Histogram, RGB Parade, RGB Waveform, Waveform, Vectorscope and Zoom

Display and Monitoring

• External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor
• External monitoring on an extra system display/monitor
• UI themes/skins: native-OS look and custom dark and light
• Control video zoom in the player: fit viewable area (default), 10%, 25%, 50%, original (100%), and 200%
• Flexible UI through dock-able panels
• Detailed media properties panel
• Recent files panel with search
• Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions
• Save and switch between multiple UI layouts.
• On-screen grid and safe areas with snapping.
• Low resolution preview (Preview Scaling) to improve speed of realtime effects.

Hardware Support

• Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
• Leap Motion and Contour Design Shuttle PRO for jog/shuttle control
• Webcam capture
• Audio capture from system device (microphone, line in)
• Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, and Windows DirectShow devices
• Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
• OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component
• AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware encoding

Download

Shotcut is a free and open source. It is also free of malware, spyware, and adware. Go and get it from the developer’s website below.