winget install --id Meltytech.ShotcutAbout Shotcut
A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
What's new in 26.6.25
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 to lose that feature. Now, after a major change to the video plumbing, it is back! The External Monitor submenu is moved from Settings to the top of the Player menu. It is incompatible with newly added Settings > Player > Use Old Video Output (provided just in case the new plumbing does not work). The new plumbing also provides a way to preview HDR video except, for technology reasons, it must be shown in a separate window... HDR Video Preview and Export As a quick reminder for those unfamiliar: "HDR" means high dynamic range, not high definition resolution. It is about expanded color and light. A lot of phones and cameras are recording with this today, and many people are not aware until they try to edit and run into problems. Also, HDR game captures on computers is increasingly common. A year ago, we added very limited, hidden support for editing HDR video because, basically, we had no way to display it without a device from Blackmagic Design. Now, there is a way. - Added Player > External Monitor > Preview Window (HDR) that can be made fullscreen. - It also works for SDR. - HDR requires a display properly configured with HDR, Native 10-bit CPU or Linear 10-bit GPU/CPU processing modes, and HDR video sources. - For HDR, only use filters tagged with #gpu or #10bit. - It does not appear to work on Linux, at least I have not been able to get it working. - Sw...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 24.01.28 | Unknown | No notes |