Overview of Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor. Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFMPEG, Video compositing across video tracks, Cross-platform support available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, Blackmagic Design SDI, and HDMI for input and preview monitoring.

Supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg. Further, using Shotcut, no import is required, which means native editing, plus multi-format timelines, resolutions, and frame rates within a project. Frame-accurate seeking is supported for many video formats.

Features of Shotcut

Supports oodles of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)

Supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, and TIFF, as well as image sequences

No import is required for native editing

Frame-accurate seeking for many formats

Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project

Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)

Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g., color bars and plasma)

Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring

JACK transport sync

Flexible UI through dock-able panels

Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)

Capture (a record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK, PulseAudio, IP streams, X11 screen

Stream (encode to IP) files and any captured source

Batch encoding with job control

Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms

Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions

Audio mixing across all tracks

Video compositing across video tracks

System Requirements and Technical Details

Supported OS: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7

RAM (Memory): 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)

Free Hard Disk Space: 500 MB or more