Shotcut
About Shotcut
Shotcut is an open-source video editing software designed to help creative professionals edit audio and video files using various built-in tools and functionalities across macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Organizations can cut, copy and paste elements, detach audio from video clips, sort playlists by name or creation date, and manage files using a drag-and-drop interface.
Shotcut supports multiple audio, video, and file formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF, and WebP, among others. Users can capture videos via webcams, mix audio across various tracks, control volume, and use the eye dropper tool to manage white balance. Creative professionals can also configure user interface (UI) themes and utilize the search functionality to retrieve recent files.
Shotcut enables designers to undo or redo edits on audio and video playlists, switch between UI layouts, view media properties on a panel, and measure video quality on a centralized platform. The software also provides a speed effect for video or audio clips, several wipe transition techniques, 360° video filters, and other tools for designers to edit media according to requirements.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A Must Have For Amateur Video Editors
Reviewed on 2021/05/19
A true delight if I have to be honest. It made the work so much better.
A true delight if I have to be honest. It made the work so much better.
Pros
If the fact that Shoctut is open source (free) isn't enough for you to use it allow me to go deeper. Shotcut is a very simple and easy to use video editor. Before using more sophisticated software for video editing it was what helped me get familiar with a lot of concepts that were completely alien to me and it taught me how to use channels and separate audio from the video files and other useful things that looked too complicated to do in similar software. Usually when you open video editing software you're met with so many buttons and so much information that it gets scary to even try. Shotcut was what allowed me to start with its simple and minimalistic interface. You have all the necessary information and buttons to work with and if and only if you want to go deeper you'll have to face the more complex functions of the software.
I think that my favorite thing about Shotcut is how easy it is to create proxies for heavy videos. Similar software requires an additional encoder when with Shotcut it's a simple 3-5 step process. It's a must for who is starting out and feels like the popular software is either too expensive or too overwhelming.
Cons
As you could probably expect Shotcut doesn't have some of the features of the higher end video editing software such as powerful color correction. Other than that I have no complaints. The software is really good and lightweight and even has a portable version.
- Industry: Music
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Free Video Editor for the Beginner!
Reviewed on 2020/05/01
Wonderful! At times a bit frustrating with the lag and sometimes overwhelming with the amount of...
Wonderful! At times a bit frustrating with the lag and sometimes overwhelming with the amount of options, especially when you have no idea what you're doing. BUT! There are a ton of free videos and tutorials both on Shotcut's website, as well as YouTube tutorials from users, and they're fantastic. You can use them as a tutorial to learn the software and the feature you want to use, and keep them bookmarked for references. But I admit, the 4K export option (while it can take a LONG time, depending on the length of your video) makes it incredibly worthwhile, especially if your exporting in a format to upload to YouTube. Definitely recommend for the beginning video editor!
Pros
1) This software is free to use with no watermarks or weird annoying ads. 2) It's fantastic for the beginning video editor. 3) Works perfectly on a PC where as I think most of the better video editors have been designed for Macs (personal opinion) 4) Allows you export in a large number of different formats, including YouTube in 4K resolution 5) So many options and features, it's almost overwhelming! 6) Fantastic interface!
Cons
If you're running other programs or working on a very big project, this can eat up your computer memory, causing lagging and freezing. Highly recommended to close all other programs before opening up Shotcut and using a computer or laptop with a fast processor. You can make due without it, but once you add any transitions or layers, it'll start freezing. The preview feature so you can see what you've already done can also be a bit slow and glitchy... Imagine skipping one frame out of every three frames. However, it does NOT export this way. I have no experience with other video editors, so I'm not sure if that's a common theme among them.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
A review of my usage of Shotcut
Reviewed on 2021/07/07
Pros
I like the user interface of Shotcut, and it's functionality is great. Because it's an open source, i liked it more. I like the filters.
Cons
It wasn't easy for me to navigate as a beginner then, i have to go over some tutorials. I would like if mobile version is created.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The free video editor that everyone should try out
Reviewed on 2021/07/21
Honestly to be free, this video editor makes you fulfill that dream of being a video editor for a...
Honestly to be free, this video editor makes you fulfill that dream of being a video editor for a major company or for some famous influencer, as it fully meets your expectations and can be somewhat confusing at first, but the truth is enough just to look at some video for beginners for this software, and you get used to the editor quickly, very satisfied and I see very few disadvantages to this software.
Pros
The advantages that this software has, are quite a few, since the more you go searching among the tools, the more you can get the most out of your video, I could consider it quite professional, since it has a very comfortable interface and you feel that you are doing a very good job for your personal projects and convert them even in studio quality videos, since when you finish your video, you can choose with any format for the type of social network to which you want to upload it. And all this for being free, I really highly recommend this video editor meets almost all your expectations, with settings to switch between the different layers you go making, your audio, video and photos. So you can give it an even more professional look.
Cons
It could be that there are many tools, which can get confusing and thus take you some time to get used to the software format, another could be that, as we are talking about a professional video editor, obviously, this application will consume a lot of your computer, so I do recommend having about 8 GB of RAM, a good processor and maybe a good graphic card, to be able to support this application, because if you don't have space in the RAM or you don't have a good processor, the application becomes somewhat slow and it could even stop and quit, so take into account to be able to save your work before.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy to use
Reviewed on 2022/12/10
Its been really great, I've got no regrets using it
Its been really great, I've got no regrets using it
Pros
I like that shotcut is open source, meaning that it is free of charge. It is very beginner friendly and the user interface is quite simple and clean. I love that I can easily extract audios from videos using it
Cons
Shotcut is cool but It lacks the color correction feature.
Shotcut FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Shotcut.Q. What type of pricing plans does Shotcut offer?
Shotcut offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Shotcut is available for free.
Q. Who are the typical users of Shotcut?
Shotcut has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Shotcut support?
Shotcut supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Shotcut support mobile devices?
Shotcut supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Shotcut integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Shotcut has
Q. What level of support does Shotcut offer?
Shotcut offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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