What is Shotcut?
Shotcut is a robust, open-source video editing solution that empowers users across platforms to create visually engaging content. This cross-platform tool supports a wide range of audio and video formats, enabling seamless native editing with multiformat timelines, resolutions, and frame rates within a single project. Shotcut's capabilities extend beyond basic video editing, offering advanced features like frame-accurate seeking, Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI input and preview monitoring, and support for resolutions up to 4K
Highlights
- Extensive format and codec support through FFmpeg, allowing users to work with hundreds of audio and video formats natively
- Multi-format timelines, resolutions, and frame rates within a single project, providing flexibility in the editing process
- Frame-accurate seeking for many video formats, ensuring precise control during the editing workflow
- Support for Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI input and preview monitoring, enabling professional-grade video production
- Ability to capture from a variety of sources, including screen, webcam, audio devices, IP streams, and Windows DirectShow devices
- Comprehensive set of editing tools, including audio filters, cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions, and 360-degree video filters
Features
Portable
Video filters
Low CPU usage
Track everything
Trim video
Video Converter
Dark Mode
Drag and Drop
Chroma Key / Green Screen
Lightweight
Keyframe Animation
Non linear editor
Timeline
Support for HTML5
pan–tilt–zoom camera
Multitrack editing
Do not disturb mode
Normalize Volume
CPU&GPU Rendering
Visual timeline
No Watermark
Image Masking