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v26.6 BETA

Fixed Player > External Monitor > DeckLink (and related such as UltraStudio) HDMI/SDI may deadlock.
Upgraded libspatialaudio to 0.4.0+.
Fixed export with libopus audio codec warns about frame_duration.
Added initial basic support for OpenFX plugins (filters) with a UI for NTSC-rc.
Added initial basic support for VST2 audio plugins (filters) with a UI for Valhalla Supermassive.
Added menu item Settings > Leave Safe Mode.
This appears if Shotcut crashes within 30 seconds upon startup, which restarts in a safe mode without external (OpenFX, VST2) plugins.
Added --experimental command line option to try out the filter UI generator.
Fixed Export > Ogg Vorbis with Cover Art fails (no longer fails but our Ogg integration does not support cover art).
Fixed Export > From > Marker using the Reframe output video filter with keyframes.
Fixed some toolbar icons' tooltips not showing keyboard shortcut.
Fixed Zoom Timeline to Fit may not scroll to start.
Fixed a crash using some Markers actions with nothing open.
Fixed using Windows UNC paths with filters, e.g. GPS Graphic.
Fixed extended/special characters in metadata of custom Export preset.
Fixed Rebuild Audio Waveform was not saving on Windows.
Changed Linux Snap to use a desktop environment file dialog if possible.
Fixed tab focus did not allow editing numeric fields in filters.
Added Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise) filter.
Moved Declick Audio from the Time category to Audio in the filter menu.
Moved menu item External Monitor from the Settings menu to the Player menu.
Added support for system displays in Player > External Monitor,
incompatible with newly added Settings > Player > Use Old Video Output (necessary for Snapdragon X ARM/Windows and possibly other setups).
Added Player > External Monitor > Preview Window (HDR) that can be made fullscreen.
Incompatible with Use Old Video Output.
It also works for SDR.
HDR requires a display properly configured with HDR, Native 10-bit CPU or Linear 10-bit GPU/CPU processing modes, and HDR video sources.
For HDR, only use filters tagged with #gpu or #10bit.
The window must already be on a HDR display before opening anything with HDR.
HDR is not working on Linux and Windows/ARM.
Added Dynamic range to custom Video Mode and Timeline Properties.
This offers SDR, which follows the colorspace, HLG HDR, and PQ HDR.
Added support for PQ HDR to External Monitor > DeckLink.
Added support for HDR to Export (automatic per Video Mode and 10-bit processing mode).
Added PQ HDR metadata dialogs for External Monitor > DeckLink and Export > Codec.
Fixed moving clips may create a very long gap.
Fixed incorrect current track after moving clip to another track.
Fixed undo after changing Video Mode corrupts the timeline.
Fixed double-click a project file in Finder with Shotcut already running on macOS.
Fixed zooming in the player with non-square pixels.
Added Settings > Timeline > Create Transitions on Overlap.
Added Settings > Display Method > Vulkan on Linux.
Fixed a possible crash when Text: Rich filter is first in the list and playhead is not over selected clip.
Fixed the Font style from the font dialog is overwritten on filter UI reload on Windows (broke in v26.4).
Fixed File > Export EDL adds 1-frame clip before transitions.
Fixed full-width spaces replaced by half-width spaces in Import Subtitles From File.
Fixed hardware scaler on Windows when using Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder (broke in v26.4).

Wide Format Support
Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
Supports popular image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
No import required - native timeline editing
Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
Webcam capture
Audio capture
Support for 4K resolutions
Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
Color, noise, and counter generators
EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
Audio Features
Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
Volume control
Audio filters:
Balance, Bass & Treble, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Limiter, Low Pass, Normlize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass, Notch, Pan, Reverb, Swap Channels
Audio mixing across all tracks
Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline
JACK transport sync
Tone generator


Video Effects
Video compositing across video tracks
HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
Deinterlacing
Auto-rotate
Fade in/out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
Video wipe transitions:
bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image
Track compositing/blending modes:
Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color, HSL Luminosity.
Video Filters:
Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Blur, Brightness, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Lens Correction, 3D LUT, Mirror, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Rotate, Rutt-Etra-Izer, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Wave, White Balance
Speed effect for audio/video clips


Editing Features
Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations
Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the timeline
3-point editing
Hide, mute, and lock track controls
Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
Drag-n-drop files from file manager
Scrubbing and transport control


Cross Platform & Codec Independent
Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux, and macOS (OS X)
Codec independent so does not rely on system codecs
Can run as a portable app from external drive
UI translations: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Italian, Occitan, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukranian (not all 100%, but you can help
Batch encoding with job control
Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg
Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
Video quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)
Perform integrity check of an audio/video file
View detailed information about an audio/video file
Display and Monitoring
External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor
External monitoring on an extra system display/monitor
UI themes/skins: native-OS look and custom dark and light
Control video zoom in the player: fit viewable area (default), 50%, original (100%), and 200%
Flexible UI through dock-able panels
Detailed media properties panel
Recent files panel with search
Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions


Hardware Support
Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
Leap Motion for jog/shuttle control
Webcam capture
Audio capture to system audio card
Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, and Windows DirectShow devices
Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
DeckLink SDI keyer output
OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component