winget install --id Meltytech.ShotcutAbout Shotcut
A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
What's new in 26.8.1
Elements 🔥 Added Elements panel to the File > New and View menus and the Generate buttons. This is a very slim (22MB) stock asset library: emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, graphics. The content licenses are royalty free, including commercial, and do not require attribution: - Emojis: Open Font License 1.1 - Sounds: The Sonniss #GameAudioGDC Bundle Licensing Agreement - Text, Transitions, Graphics: Lottie Simple License Changes - Added Settings > Graphics Adapter for Windows and Linux (only if multiple GPUs). - Added Shake video filter. First generated UI to be shared and officially adopted. - The --experimental UI generator now also generates a meta.qml. (See View > Application Log to get the temp file names to copy and share these files.) - Improved appearance of tabs and Subtitles in Fusion Dark and Fusion Light themes. Fixes - Fixed opening a .mlt project file from a file manager on macOS (broke in v26.6). - Fixed corrupt color in dissolve transitions with Settings > Processing Mode > Linear 10-bit CPU. - Fixed the new Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise) when the export audio sample rate is not 48000 Hz. - Fixed off-by-one frame errors in subtitle bar in Timeline and Subtitle Burn In video filter. - Fixed all builds missing support for VST2 and LV2 audio plugins. Now install and try the Valhalla Supermassive VST plugin. - Fixed a libGLESv2.dll warning on startup on some Windows systems. - Fixed Motion Tracker keyframes not applying after save/reload. - Fixed manual override QSG_RHI_BACKEND environment variable on Windows. - Fixed Properties > Convert...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26.8.1 | Unknown | Elements 🔥 Added Elements panel to the File > New and View menus and the Generate buttons. This is a very slim (22MB) stock asset library: emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, graphics. The content... |
| 26.6.25 | Unknown | External Monitor with a System Display Three years ago, when we upgraded our UI library to a major new version, we lost support for using an additional system display as an external monitor. Many people were disappointed... |
| 26.4.30 | Unknown | What's Changed Timeline Improvements - Added symmetric resize of a timeline transition using its trim handles. - Added drag-n-drop from Recent to Timeline. - Improved Timeline and Keyframes zoom to be less erratic and mo... |
| 26.2.26 | Unknown | Fixes - Fixed crash when adding long video to Timeline with Qt 6.10.1 (broke in v26.1). - Fixed black or green bottom bar on Windows with HEVC video source and Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder plus previ... |
| 26.1.30 | Unknown | Hardware Video Decoding! "What took so long?" you might ask. A good way to manage it across all operating systems and GPU vendor APIs. We have a FAQ topic about this. Management comes in the forms of operating system abs... |
| 25.12.31 | Unknown | This version hot-fixes problems found in 25.12.30: - Fixed nesting MLT XML stopped working. - Fixed Screen Recording missing on Linux and macOS. - Fixed Stabilize video filter on macOS. See the 25.12 release notes Full C... |
| 25.12.30 | Unknown | Higher Bit Depth: 10-bit Video CPU Pipeline What is "bit depth?" That is the number of colors or video brightness levels. 8-bit has only 256 values per color component, for example, red/green/blue. 10 bits has 1024 level... |
| 25.10.31 | Unknown | Added New > Image/Video from HTML - This requires Google Chrome or Chromium. - Please see the stock Presets for examples. - It defaults to a transparent background! - The stock presets also demonstrate a template facilit... |
| 25.08.16 | Unknown | This version fixes new bugs in the previous version 25.07. Details: - Fixed Gain/Volume filter from a previous version project does not show its UI or keyframes (broke in v25.07). - Fixed artifacts in Gain/Volume, Fade I... |
| 25.07.26 | Unknown | Hot Hot Hot 1 hot for the new Speech to Text model downloader 2 hots for the new System Fusion and improved System UI themes 3 hots for your CPU cooking on the new Outline video filter! - Added a Whisper.cpp (GGML) model... |
| 25.05.11 | Unknown | New Features - Added Alpha Strobe video filter. - Added Freeze Frame to Timeline. - Added File > Rereun Filter Analysis. - Added adjustable track headers width to Timeline. - Added an item count to Playlist. - Added File... |
| 25.03.29 | Unknown | This version includes a lot fixes including related to addition of new features in previous version as well as many quality-of-life enhancements. New Stuff - Added Text style preset to Subtitles > Generate Text on Timeli... |
| 25.01.25 | Unknown | New Stuff - Added Bins and media type & text search to Playlist. - Added View > Files panel. - Added Show in Files to Properties and Jobs. - Added HSL Primaries and HSL Range video filters (HSL = Hue/Saturation/Lightness... |
| 24.11.17 | Unknown | - Fixed Convert stopped converting variable frame rate to constant (broke in v24.10). - Fixed filter in and out points when you resize transition by moving a clip (broke in v24.10). - Fixed Reframe loses its keyframes in... |
| 24.10.29 | Unknown | Speech to Text Shotcut gets its first AI based on OpenAI's Whisper, courtesy of the whisper.cpp project. This is available through Subtitles > Speech to Text menu item or button: . - Our builds include a basic model that... |
| 24.09.13 | Unknown | ### Fixes For Major New Bugs This is a quick followup release to version 24.08 that introduced a few major new bugs: - Fixed seeking and frozen video with some files or scenarios. - Fixed Reverb audio filter missing on W... |
| 24.08.29 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 24.06.26 | Unknown | No notes |
| 24.04.28 | Unknown | Enhancements - Added Ambisonic Encoder audio filter. - Added View > Scopes > Audio Vector. - Added View > Scopes > Audio Surround. - Added Settings > Time Format to affect everywhere that timecode is displayed or editabl... |
| 24.02.29 | Unknown | Ambisonic Audio Ambisonic spatial (spherical) audio is often used with 360° video whether output as spherical or reframed to a rectangle. Adding support for Ambisonic facilitates 360° video workflows with Shotcut.But als... |