Shotcut

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Shotcut
Original author(s) Charlie Yates
Developer(s) Meltytech, LLC
Stable release
23.05.14 [1] [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 14 May 2023
Repository
Written in C, C++
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Type Video editing software
License GPL-3.0-or-later [3] [4] [5]
Website shotcut.org

Shotcut is a free and open-source, cross-platform video, audio, and image editing program for FreeBSD, [6] Linux, macOS and Windows. [7] Started in 2011 by Dan Dennedy, Shotcut is developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework, [8] in development since 2004 by the same author. [9] [10]

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Features

Shotcut supports video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg. It uses a timeline for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available. [11] [12] The output options for the 2017 version included Apple ProRes, HDV, DVD, Flash, H.264, GIF animation, Ogg-Vorbis, WebM, and WMV. [13]

Audio

Video effects

Hardware

Other

History

Shotcut was originally conceived in November 2004 by Charlie Yates, an MLT co-founder and the original lead developer. [14] The current version of Shotcut is a complete rewrite by Dan Dennedy, another MLT co-founder and its current lead. Dennedy wanted to create a new editor based on MLT and chose to reuse the Shotcut name, since he liked it so much. He wanted to make something to exercise the new cross-platform capabilities of MLT, especially in conjunction with the WebVfx and Movit plugins.

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References

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  2. ↑ "Release v23.05.14 · mltframework/shotcut · GitHub". 14 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Github COPYING". Github. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  4. ↑ "shotcut_21.01.29+ds-1_copyright".
  5. ↑ "shotcut/src/main.cpp".
  6. ↑ "FreeBSD Manual Pages - shotcut". freebsd.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  7. 1 2 Paris, Steve (2022-05-11). "Shotcut 22.03 review". TechRadar . Retrieved 2023-05-21.
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  9. ↑ "Blog Entry Shotcut, 6 September 2012". Dan Dennedy. 2012-08-06.
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  11. ↑ "Full List of Features" . Retrieved 2018-06-14.
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