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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.