It is cross-platform video editor that can be run on Windows 10/8/7 (32- or 64-bit), at least Apple macOS 10.10 – 10.15, or 64-bit Linux with at least glibc 2.19.CPU to use Shotcut video editor: x86-64 Intel or AMD with minimum one 2 GHz core for SD, 2 cores for HD, and 4 cores for 4K resolutions rendering support.Here are some of the main Shotcut features: Multi-format timeline, Webcam capture, Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP), Color, text, noise, and counter generators Audio filters, Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions, 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) colour wheels a wide range of Video Filters Reverse a clip 3-point editing External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export and more… While writing this article the current version of Shotcut was 19.04.30

Shotcut is a native timeline editing which is one of the best Adobe premier alternatives in the open source category for video editing purpose. It supports 4K resolution videos along with FFmpeg and other image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF, WebP as well as image sequences. It is a cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.

If you are Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint or Elementary OS users those are looking for some free and open source video editor then you must try Shotcut.

How to use shotcut video editor