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Full List of Features

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

• Lottie, rawr, Rive, and After Effects animations

• 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 & 8K 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

• Optional full range video input, processing, and export

• 10-bit video end-to-end when using only GPU effects

• Batch conversion

Audio Features

• Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer

• Volume control

• Audio filters:
• Balance, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Declick, Delay, Downmix, Equalizer: 3-Band, Equalizer: 15-Band, Equalizer: Parametric, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Invert, Limiter, Low Pass, Noise Gate, Normalize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass, Notch, Pan, Pitch, Reverb, Stereo Enhancer, Swap Channels, Track Auto Fade, Track Seam

• 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

• Record directly to timeline for voiceover, for example

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 with manual override

• Fade in/out audio and fade video 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.

• Video Filters:
• Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Audio Dance Visualization, Audio Level Visualization, Audio Light Visualization, Audio Spectrum Visualization, Audio Waveform Visualization, Blend Mode, Blur: Box, Blur: Exponential, Blur: Gaussian, Blur: Low Pass, Blur: Pad, Brightness, Choppy, Chroma Hold, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Corner Pin, Crop: Source, Crop: Circle, Crop: Rectangle, Deband, Distort, Dither, Elastic Scale, Flip, Fisheye, Glitch, Glow, GPS Graphic, GPS Text, Gradient, Grid, Halftone, Hue/Lightness/Saturation, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Lens Correction, Levels, 3D LUT, Mask: Apply, Mask: Chroma Key, Mask: From File, Mask: Simple Shape, Mirror, Mosaic, Motion Tracker, Nervous, No Sync, Noise: Fast, Noise: Keyframes, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Posterize, Reduce Noise: HQ3DN, Reduce Noise: Quantization, Reduce Noise: Smart Blur, Reduce Noise: Wavelet, Reflect, RGB Shift, Rotate and Scale, Saturation, Scan Lines, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Sketch, Speed: Forward Only, Speed: Forward & Reverse, Spot Remover, Stabilize, Text: Rich, Text: Simple, Threshold, Time Remap, Timer, Track Auto Fade Video, Trails, Vertigo, Vignette, Unpremultiply Alpha, Wave, White Balance

• 360° Video Filters:
• Equirectangular Mask, 360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear, 360: Equirectangular to Stereographic, 360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular, 360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular, 360: Stabilize, 360: Transform

• Speed ramping for audio/video clips

• Reverse a clip

• Video scopes: Histogram, RGB Parade, RGB Waveform, Waveform, Vectorscope and Zoom

• Object motion tracking

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

• Easing functions for keyframes

• 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

• Timeline markers and ranges, including export from a range and exporting as text chapters

• A Notes panel to keep notes about your project or contain text to reaad for voiceover

• Flexibly insert and reorder tracks

• Edit Lottie and rawr JSON animations with [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/) vector animation tool (included in our Shotcut downloads)

Cross Platform & Codec Independent

• Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux, and macOS)

• 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, Hebrew, 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%, but you can help)

• 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

Display and Monitoring

• External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC 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

• Preview the Shotuct timeline as a background within Glaxnimate

• Quickly search for actions & execute them

• Editable keyboard shortcuts

• Bitrate graph viewer

Hardware Support

• Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring

• 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

About

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.