Shotcut

Shotcut is a video editing software designed for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. It caters to a wide range of users, including individual content creators, small to medium-sized businesses, and professionals in various industries such as videography, filmmaking, content creation, video editing, post-production, education, training, marketing, and advertising. According to the vendor, Shotcut offers a diverse set of features and an intuitive interface that allows users to edit and enhance videos for different purposes.

Key Features

Wide Format Support: According to the vendor, Shotcut supports a wide range of audio and video formats and codecs, enabling native editing without the need for importing. It offers multi-format timelines, resolutions, and frame rates within a project, and supports frame accurate seeking for many video formats.

Device and Transport Options: The vendor states that Shotcut provides support for Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring. It allows users to capture from various devices, including SDI, HDMI, and webcams. Additionally, it supports screen and audio capture, as well as network stream playback.

Sleek, Intuitive Interface: According to the vendor, Shotcut offers a customizable workspace with multiple panels that can be docked or undocked. Users can access detailed media properties, recent files with search, playlist with thumbnail view, filter panel, history view, encoding panel, jobs queue, and melted server and playlist. The interface also supports convenient drag-and-drop functionality for assets from the file manager.

Audio Features: According to the vendor, Shotcut provides audio scopes such as loudness, peak meter, waveform, and spectrum analyzer. Users have control over volume and can apply various audio filters, including balance, compressor, delay, equalizer, expander, gain, noise gate, pan, pitch, reverb, and more. It also allows audio mixing across all tracks and the application of fade in/out audio and video dissolve transitions.

Video Effects: The vendor claims that Shotcut offers video compositing across multiple video tracks and provides 3-way color wheels for precise color correction and grading. It supports deinterlacing and auto-rotate features, and offers a variety of video wipe transitions and track compositing/blending modes. Users can apply numerous video filters, such as blur, brightness, contrast, chroma keying, distortion, glow, noise reduction, rotation, saturation, sharpening, size and position adjustments, and more.

Editing Features: According to the vendor, Shotcut allows users to trim source clips directly on the player or timeline with ripple option. It supports essential editing operations such as cut, copy, paste, append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete. The software also offers 3-point editing and provides controls to hide, mute, and lock track controls. With the help of thumbnails and waveforms in the multitrack timeline, users can easily navigate and edit their projects. Shotcut provides unlimited undo and redo functionality for playlist edits, and allows the creation, editing, saving, loading, and exporting of MLT XML projects.

Display and Monitoring: The vendor states that Shotcut supports external monitoring through Blackmagic Decklink card on an NTSC monitor. Users can choose from different UI themes/skins and have control over video zoom in the player. The interface offers flexible UI customization through dockable panels and a detailed media properties panel. Shotcut provides on-screen grid and safe areas with snapping functionality to assist with precise alignment. Additionally, it offers low-resolution preview and preview scaling options to optimize speed and performance.

Cross Platform & Codec Independent: According to the vendor, Shotcut is a cross-platform video editor that can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It does not rely on system codecs and supports a wide range of formats and codecs thanks to its integration with FFmpeg. Shotcut can be run as a portable app from an external drive, and it supports batch encoding with job control. Users can encode/transcode their projects to various formats and codecs, as well as stream files and capture sources.