Shotcut helps a variety of codecs and codecs due to FFmpeg. There is not any import required that means native timeline modifying, Blackmagic Design assist for enter and preview monitoring, and backbone assist as much as 4k.
Different options embrace display screen, webcam and audio seize. Community stream playback. Helps seize from SDI, HDMI, webcam, JACK & Pulse audio, IP stream, X11 display screen and Home windows DirectShow gadgets. A number of dockable and undockable panels, together with detailed media properties, latest recordsdata with search, playlist with thumbnail view, filter panel, historical past view, encoding panel, jobs queue, and melted server and playlist. Additionally helps drag-n-drop of property from file supervisor.
Options
Vast Format Help
- Help for the most recent audio and video codecs due to FFmpeg
- Helps widespread picture codecs comparable to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP in addition to picture sequences
- Lottie and rawr JSON animations
- No import required – native timeline modifying
- Body-accurate in search of for a lot of codecs
- Multi-format timeline: combine and match resolutions and body charges inside a undertaking
- Webcam seize
- Audio seize
- Help for 4K resolutions
- Community stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
- Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. shade bars and plasma)
- Shade, textual content, noise, and counter mills
- EDL (CMX3600 Edit Choice Listing) export
- Export single body as picture or video as picture sequence
- Movies recordsdata with alpha channel – each studying and writing
- Tone mapping HDR to SDR
- Optionally available full vary video enter, processing, and export
Audio Options
- Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
- Quantity management
- Audio filters:
- Steadiness, Band Move, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Equalizer: 3-Band, Equalizer: 15-Band, Equalizer: Parametric, Expander, Acquire, Excessive Move, Invert, Limiter, Low Move, Noise Gate, Normalize: One Move, Normalize: Two Move, Notch, Pan, Pitch, Reverb, Stereo Enhancer, Swap Channels
- Audio mixing throughout all tracks
- Fade out and in audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
- Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions simply by overlapping photographs on the identical monitor of the timeline
- JACK transport sync
- Tone generator
- Stereo, mono, and 5.1 encompass
- Pitch compensation for video pace modifications
- File on to timeline for voiceover, for instance
Video Results
- Video compositing throughout video tracks
- 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) shade wheels for shade correction and grading
- Eye dropper software to choose impartial shade for white balancing
- Deinterlacing
- Auto-rotate with guide override
- Fade in/out audio and fade video with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
- Video wipe transitions:
- bar, barn door, field, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and customized gradient picture
- Observe compositing/mixing modes:
- None, Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Display screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Exhausting Mild, Tender Mild, Distinction, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Shade, HSL Luminosity.
- Video Filters:
- Alpha Channel: Regulate, Alpha Channel: View, Audio Dance Visualization, Audio Stage Visualization, Audio Mild Visualization, Audio Spectrum Visualization, Audio Waveform Visualization, Mix Mode, Blur: Field, Blur: Exponential, Blur: Gaussian, Blur: Low Move, Blur: Pad, Brightness, Uneven, Chroma Maintain, Chroma Key: Superior, Chroma Key: Easy, Distinction, Shade Grading, Nook Pin, Crop: Supply, Crop: Circle, Crop: Rectangle, Deband, Distort, Dither, Elastic Scale, Flip, Glitch, Glow, GPS Textual content, Gradient, Grid, Halftone, Hue/Lightness/Saturation, Invert Colours, Key Spill: Superior, Key Spill: Easy, Lens Correction, Ranges, 3D LUT, Masks: Apply, Masks: Chroma Key, Masks: From File, Masks: Easy Form, Mirror, Mosaic, Nervous, No Sync, Noise: Quick, Noise: Keyframes, Previous Movie: Mud, Previous Movie: Grain, Previous Movie: Projector, Previous Movie: Scratches, Previous Movie: Technocolor, Opacity, Posterize, Scale back Noise: HQ3DN, Scale back Noise: Quantization, Scale back Noise: Sensible Blur, Scale back Noise: Wavelet, Replicate, RGB Shift, Rotate and Scale, Saturation, Scan Traces, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Dimension and Place, Sketch, Spot Remover, Stabilize, Textual content: Wealthy, Textual content: Easy, Threshold, Time Remap, Timer, Trails, Vertigo, Vignette, Unpremultiply Alpha, Wave, White Steadiness
- 360° Video Filters:
- Equirectangular Masks, 360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear, 360: Equirectangular to Stereographic, 360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular, 360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular, 360: Stabilize, 360: Remodel
- Velocity impact for audio/video clips
- Reverse a clip
- Video scopes: Histogram, RGB Parade, RGB Waveform, Waveform, Vectorscope and Zoom
Enhancing Options
- Trimming on supply clip participant or timeline with ripple possibility
- Simple-to-use lower, copy, and paste operations
- Append, insert, overwrite, elevate, and ripple delete modifying on the timeline
- 3-point modifying
- Disguise, mute, and lock monitor controls
- Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
- Limitless undo and redo for playlist edits together with a historical past view
- Create, play, edit, save, load, and export (render) MLT XML initiatives (with auto-save)
- Save and cargo trimmed clip as MLT XML file
- Load and play complicated MLT XML file as a clip
- Drag-n-drop recordsdata from file supervisor
- Scrubbing and transport management
- Keyframes for filter parameters
- Detach audio from video clip
- Presets for many filters and Export – each provided and user-created
- Kind playlist by identify or creation/recording date
- Multi-select gadgets within the playlist and timeline
- Create customized identify for clips and enter feedback about it
- Low decision proxy modifying to enhance pace of in search of and get rid of or reduce scaling
- Timeline markers and ranges, together with export from a spread and exporting as textual content chapters
- A Notes panel to maintain notes about your undertaking or comprise textual content to reaad for voiceover
- Flexibly insert and reorder tracks
- Edit Lottie and rawr JSON animations with [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/) vector animation software (included in our Shotcut downloads)
Cross Platform & Codec Impartial
- Cross platform assist: accessible on Home windows, Linux, and macOS)
- Codec impartial so doesn’t depend on system codecs
- Can run as a transportable app from exterior drive
- UI translations: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese language, 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 (not all 100%, however you possibly can assist
- Batch encoding with job management
- Encode/transcode to a wide range of codecs and codecs due to FFmpeg
- Stream (encode to IP) recordsdata and any seize supply
- Video high quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)
- Carry out integrity verify of an audio/video file
- View detailed details about an audio/video file
Show and Monitoring
- Exterior monitoring through Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor
- Exterior monitoring on an additional system show/monitor
- UI themes/skins: native-OS look and customized darkish and light-weight
- Management video zoom within the participant: match viewable space (default), 10%, 25%, 50%, authentic (100%), and 200%
- Versatile UI by dock-able panels
- Detailed media properties panel
- Current recordsdata panel with search
- Thumbnail and waveform caching between periods
- Save and change between a number of UI layouts.
- On-screen grid and secure areas with snapping.
- Low decision preview (Preview Scaling) to enhance pace of realtime results.
- Preview the Shotuct timeline as a background inside Glaxnimate
{Hardware} Help
- Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for enter and preview monitoring
- Leap Movement and Contour Design Shuttle PRO for jog/shuttle management
- Webcam seize
- Audio seize from system gadget (microphone, line in)
- Seize (document) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, and Home windows DirectShow gadgets
- Multi-core parallel picture processing (when not utilizing GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
- OpenGL GPU-based picture processing with 16-bit floating level linear per shade element
- AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA {hardware} encoding
Exchange the Masks video filter with 3 new filters:
- Masks: Easy Form
- Masks: From File
- Masks: Apply
The brand new Masks: Apply filter makes it doable to masks filters with out utilizing a number of tracks! Use Masks: Easy Form or Masks: From File to begin the filter masks adopted the video filters to be masked adopted by Masks: Apply to use the masks to the filters in between. Filters earlier than or after the masks filters have an effect on all the video body. One can nonetheless use Masks: Easy Form or Masks: From File to have an effect on the alpha channel for multitrack compositing as earlier than. This makes them appropriate with current data and tutorials that counsel utilizing a number of tracks in addition to enabling collage/montage or transition results when the tracks don’t use the identical clip.
The brand new Masks: From File is a strong new video filter providing 3 modes:
- Wipe transition (inventory or customized)
- Channel > Brightness from a video or picture file (File > Customized…)
- Channel > Alpha from a video or picture file. Furthermore, Threshold could be animated with easy or keyframes, which is particularly good when used with luma-wipe picture recordsdata (inventory or customized). Not solely are you able to wipe on a masked filter but in addition you should use this in its place technique to make a wipe transition utilizing a number of tracks (as a substitute of identical monitor transition).
What’s New
New Stuff
- Added Participant > Loop () and Participant > Set Loop Vary to the menu and participant controls.
- Added Timeline > Choice > Group/Ungroup (Ctrl+G, command+G on macOS).
- That is principally a saved multi-selection system. So, the operations it helps are all these accessible for a number of choice. That doesn’t embrace trim, Filters, or Properties right now.
- Added assist for a number of choice to Cut up At Playhead.
- Added Timeline > Edit > Cut up All Tracks At Playhead (Shift+S).
- Added Edit > Undo and Redo assist for including, eradicating, altering, and disabling Filters.
- Added Timeline > Edit > Nudge Ahead (.) and Nudge Backward (,).
- Added Pause and Resume to the context menu in Jobs.
- Added Settings > Backup with choices for:
- Manually
- Hourly
- Each day (default)
- Weekly
- This creates a backup of the present undertaking file in a fashion much like File > Backup and Save besides it’s automated now except Manually is chosen.
- Added File > Different Variations submenu that tries to search out similarly-named undertaking recordsdata in the identical folder create by Shotcut backup or restoration mechanisms.
- Added Settings > Participant > Audio API on Linux and Home windows.
- Principally, this makes the –SDL_AUDIODRIVER command line possibility accessible within the Settings menu.
- Added a Earlier button to View > Utility Log dialog that goes to the log file created by the earlier app session.
- Now, on startup, Shotcut makes a backup of shotcut-log.txt to shotcut-log.bak.
- Added a Copy button to all textual content viewer dialogs that does the identical factor that the non-obvious Choose All and Copy actions within the context menu.
Fixes and Adjustments
- Mounted a doable crash when opening undertaking.
- Mounted a crash in Playlist > menu > Add Chosen to Slidewhow when one thing is enjoying.
- Mounted a doable crash in Timeline > Cut up or trim actions if the clip has sure filters with keyframes.
- Mounted some bugs in Undo after shifting clips on the Timeline.
- Mounted typically (25 fps) frames are dropped and others repeated in Export on macOS.
- Mounted proxy technology failing with NVENC if Settings > Proxy > Use {Hardware} Encoder is on.
- Mounted proxy technology failing for movies with full vary shade on macOS with Settings > Proxy > Use {Hardware} Encoder turned on.
- Mounted 10-bit Export with NVENC (NVIDIA) encoders.
- Mounted Layers > New > Emoji is disabled in Glaxnimate on Home windows.
- Mounted distort mode in Dimension & Place GPU filter.
- Mounted zombie values in Time Remap filter whereas working with keyframes.
- Mounted saving B frames in customized Export preset with {hardware} encoder.
- Mounted toggling Export > Use {hardware} encoder resets all choices to defaults.
- Mounted Export > Every Playlist Merchandise > Listing incorrectly exhibits a filename.
- Mounted intermittent crash shifting a clip on the Timeline.
- Mounted Playlist > Choose All and Take away All are disabled till choice modifications.
- Mounted some filter parameters’ sliders might overflow utilizing new keyframe easings that over- or under-shoot.
- Modified the identify of the Declick time filter to Declick Audio.
- Modified the participant controls to mechanically adapt to 2 rows so the In Level and Chosen Length present extra reliably.
- Modified the low reminiscence warning dialog to mechanically shut itself when the free reminiscence turns into excessive sufficient.
- Modified the low reminiscence detection to mechanically pause and resume a at the moment operating job because the free reminiscence turns into too low after which excessive sufficient once more.
- Modified Timeline > Detach Audio to mechanically create a gaggle.
- Modified the Jobs log viewer to mechanically and scroll to the tip whether it is left open whereas a job is operating.
- Modified the Slideshow Generator to recollect all choices.
- Modified the splitter between UI panels to be simpler to search out and seize to pull.
