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Exploring the world of open source creative software quickly reveals that there’s a visible demand for non-linear video editing. Regardless of the way people use such software, the number of available titles keeps growing, and already includes such respected names as Kdenlive, OpenShot and Flowblade. But there’s another application that we undeservedly missed: Shotcut. In the endless line of ‘shots’ and ‘cuts’ software, this new editor combines simplicity with a decent set of features, and we’re sure it will attract devoted users that find other editors too complicated or basic. Shotcut offers a neat and compact Qt5-based interface, and makes use of such technologies as FFMpeg, MLT, x264 and LADSPA, as well as various encoders. The list of supported features has much in common with Kdenlive, but we want to point out interesting elements, like native video editing without the need to import clips beforehand. In Shotcut, you just open one or several clips as
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you’d want to do in a video player, and work with them directly.
The application developers have their own vision of the comfortable and intuitive workplace. Most of Shotcut’s features are available from the main toolbar, which can show and hide such panels as Filters, Timeline or file properties. By default, Shotcut shows no panels, so after the first launch you’re forced to enable things that you’re going to use, such as adding video and audio tracks, and arranging panels to your liking. It looks easier than it sounds, and Shotcut is often said to offer a steep learning curve for novice users.
In other regards, we tried the experimental GPU processing option under the Settings menu. This feature is not stable yet, but it works very nicely on many modern video chips. In a real video editing workflow, GPU acceleration can save you many hours and some money on electricity when rendering large projects, so if this is the case, you should give Shotcut a try.
The project releases new milestones each month, and is constantly improving in terms of stability and translations.