Shotcut

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Shotcut
Original author(s) Charlie Yates
Developer(s) Meltytech, LLC
Stable release
25.05.11 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 11 May 2025
Repository
Written in C, C++
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Type Video editing software
License GPL-3.0-or-later [2] [3] [4]
Website shotcut.org

Shotcut is a free and open-source, cross-platform video, audio, and image editing program for FreeBSD, [5] Linux, macOS and Windows. [6] Started in 2011 by Dan Dennedy, Shotcut is developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework, [7] in development since 2004 by the same author. [8] [9]

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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. [10] [11] The output options for the 2017 version included Apple ProRes, HDV, DVD, Flash, H.264, GIF animation, Ogg-Vorbis, WebM, and WMV. [12]

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. [13] 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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New Version 25.05: Freeze Frame". 11 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Github COPYING". Github. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  3. ↑ "shotcut_21.01.29+ds-1_copyright".
  4. ↑ "shotcut/src/main.cpp".
  5. ↑ "FreeBSD Manual Pages - shotcut". freebsd.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  6. 1 2 Paris, Steve (2022-05-11). "Shotcut 22.03 review". TechRadar . Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  7. ↑ "MLT Multimedia Framework". Dan Dennedy. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  8. ↑ "Blog Entry Shotcut, 6 September 2012". Dan Dennedy. 2012-08-06.
  9. ↑ "Introducing Shotcut, a new free video editor". Libre Graphics World. 2012-08-13.
  10. ↑ "Full List of Features" . Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  11. ↑ "Shotcut video editor gets hardware accelerated color grading". Libre Graphics World. 2013-03-12.
  12. ↑ Muchmore, Michael (2017-09-25). "Shotcut Review". PCMag . Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  13. ↑ "Shotcut". Archived from the original on 2005-04-01. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
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