Shotcut is an open-source, free and cross-platform video editing software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Dan Dennedy, started Shotcut project in 2011 and it is developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework. Video editing has been never easy but Shotcut is an user-friendly and simple video editor that gives you tons of functions and features to edit/manage your videos with just mouse clicks, but do not under estimate this product because it has complex functions too that many paid product offers.
Features of Shotcut:
Support for 4K resolutions
Supports oodles of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg
Supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
Frame-accurate seeking for many formatsmulti-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
Webcam and screen capture including background capture to capture a Shotcut session
Audio capture
Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
Drag-n-drop files from file manager
Audio scopes: peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
Flexible UI through dock-able panels
Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, X11 screen.
Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
Batch encoding with job control
Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component
Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
Complete list of features are available here.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:haraldhv/shotcut
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotcut
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