Shotcut 18.09.16

Shotcut is a cross-platform video editor freely available for complex and simple processes alike. As Open Source software, the expectations are high and to nobody’s surprise – they have been met. It has drag and drop; it integrates video filters running on OpenGL and CPU; it comes merged with Melted, the video server that lets you broadcast television channels.

Anyway, to sum it up what we see at this software is features in capturing video from virtually any device, capabilities in playing around with a variety of video filters, nicely integrated controls and tweaking buttons as well as support for most common video and audio formats.

• 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, TIFF as well as image sequences
• no import required - 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)
• Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
• JACK transport sync
  
• deinterlacing
• detailed media properties panel
• recent files panel
• save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
• load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
  
• audio signal level meter
• volume control
  
• scrubbing and transport control
• flexible UI through dock-able panels
• encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
• capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK, PulseAudio, IP streams, X11 screen
• stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
  
• batch encoding with job control
• create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML playlists
• unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
• connect to Melted servers over MVCP TCP protocol; control the transport playback of Melted units
• edit Melted playlists including suport for undo/redo
• OpenGL GPU-based image processing
• multi-core parallel image processing when not using GPU (and frame-dropping is disabled)
  
• video filters: Blur, Color Grading, Crop, Glow, Mirror, Saturation, Sharpen
• 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
• eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing