Shotcut is a Open Source Windows program in the Video & Audio Editing category, developed by Meltytech. The current version is 26.8.1; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.
✨ Features
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📝 Release notes (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 & View > Resources > Convert to keep 10-bit video as 10-bit when using 10-bit processing modes.
- Fixed the Crop: Source filter with Preview Scaling and hardware decoder.
- Fixed proxy video generated for rotated video (Properties > Rotation) not preserving rotation.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/compare/v26.6.25...v26.8.1
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