
The app lets you create multiple tracks for audio and video, while conveniently located tools let you stitch it all together in any way you’d like by easily splitting, trimming, and snapping clips together. You can also switch background colors from dark, light, and system, plus the app supports external monitors. All panels are dockable - you can open and close panels at will or separate them from the application frame to focus on a single aspect of your project. The default layout is sparse and a bit text heavy, but you can use the top menu to switch out different workspaces - or create a custom one - that will make the program more comfortable. Watching an instructional video or two will go a long way in getting new users accustomed to this software’s conventions. Hover your mouse over a tool to reveal (albeit in tiny print), its function.

It’s easy to learn, but most novices are not going to just jump right into the program and immediately find their way around. While it’s not as intuitive as Hitfilm or iMovie, anyone who is even vaguely familiar with non-linear video editing should be able to get the hang of Shotcut pretty quickly. Faster preview for most video clips without filters.The Shotcut interface is bare bones, but there’s plenty you can accomplish right from the timeline. Additional multi-threading in audio/video file reading. Shotcut provides a very wide range of editing options for a free app you’ll need some time to uncover all its capabilities, but Shotcut’s editing options are there for you to try no matter what your experience level is. Shotcut’s complexity lies in both its advanced editing options, like 3-point editing, and in its interface options (you can choose between native OS look and custom dark and light). Other features you may find useful are screen and webcam capture, audio capture, network stream playback, the recent files panel, the drag and drop functionality, batch processing, and support for 4K resolutions.

Audio filters include Balance, Gain and Pan and help you easily solve audio file issues. For color correction and grading use “Color Wheels”. You can create a whole new aspect of your videos by applying a variety of video filters, such as Crop, Glow, Blur, Mirror, Saturation, Sharpen, and so on.


Shotcut works with the MLT XML format as well – you can open these files as clips, perform tests, create playlists, encode them and stream them to a network of your choice.Īside from working with a diversity of formats, Shotcut uses a multi-format timeline, which means you can mix videos having different resolutions and framerates. The software also provides support for image formats like BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TGA, SVG, TIFF, and SVG. Shotcut relies on FFmpeg to support a wide range of audio and video formats and easily switch between them: VOB, MXF, M4A, FLV, M2T, MP4, AVI, MOV, MPG, OGG, MOV, WEBM and so on.
