Portable ShotCut 25.12.30 (x64) Multilingual
Shotcut Portable is a simple and user-friendly video editor that offers a series of features and functions to help you adjust and retouch your favorite movies, in just a few clicks of your mouse.
The application supports various video, audio and even image formats, so you can work with any type of media you want. The ‘Multi-format Timeline’ enables you to mix and match resolutions as well as framerates throughout an editing project. You can analyze the video frame by frame, allowing you to correct or enhance its every aspect.
Another interesting feature of Shotcut is the fact that it opens and plays MLT XML as clips, so you can even use this application to test such files. In addition, Shotcut allows you to create and play MLT XML playlists, that you can easily encode or stream to a preferred network.
The application also provides you with a number of video filters, such as ‘Blur’, ‘Color Grading’, ‘Crop’, ‘Glow’, ‘Mirror’, ‘Rotate’, ‘Saturation’, ‘Sharpen’, ‘White Balance’ enabling you to fully customize the appearance of your movie, while the ‘Color Wheels’ can be used for color correction and grading.
Moreover, Shotcut enables you to work with a set of audio filters, namely ‘Balance’, ‘Gain’, ‘Pan’, that can prove useful in adjusting several sound issues in your file.
The ‘Encode’ component makes it possible for you to convert your video to numerous output formats, such as M4A, MXF, VOB, FLV, MP4, M2T, MPG, AVI, MOV, OGG, WEBM, and others.
After finishing with the various editing processes that you want to perform on your video, you can stream it using the network protocol scheme, address port and parameters as an URL address.
Shotcut is a comprehensive and efficient media editing tool that offers basic as well as more complex functions, some of which go beyond those of many similar applications, that you can use with confidence.
Features:
– supports oodles of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
– supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
– no import required – native editing
– frame-accurate seeking for many formats
– multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
– network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
– frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
– Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
– JACK transport sync
– deinterlacing
– detailed media properties panel
– recent files panel with search
– drag-n-drop files from file manager
– save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
– load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
– audio signal level meter
– volume control
– scrubbing and transport control
– flexible UI through dock-able panels
– encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
– capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK, PulseAudio, IP streams, X11 screen
– stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
– batch encoding with job control
– create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
– unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
– connect to Melted servers over MVCP TCP protocol
– control the transport playback of Melted units
– edit Melted playlists including suport for undo/redo
– OpenGL GPU-based image processing
– multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
– video filters: Blur, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Invert Colors, Mirror, Opacity, Rotate, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Wave, White Balance
– audio filters: Balance, Copy Channel, Downmix, Gain, Normlize, Pan, Swap Channels
– 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
– eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
– UI translations: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Portugese, Spanish (not all 100%, but you can help)
– HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
– Leap Motion for jog/shuttle control
– DeckLink SDI keyer output
– 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%
– multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
– thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions
– audio mixing across all tracks
– video compositing across video tracks
– trimming (on timeline)
– append, insert, overwrite, lift, and delete (ripple) editing on the timeline
– 3-point editing
– external monitoring on an extra system display/monitor
– 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
– video wipe transitions: bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image
What’s NEW in ShotCut Portable:
- Added Settings > Processing Mode for video processing. This affects both preview and export.
- Native 8-bit CPU (same as previous versions without GPU Effects; fast)
- Linear 8-bit CPU (better color accuracy for interpolated/blended pixels)
- Native 10-bit CPU (better image quality with 10-bit input or output)
- Linear 10-bit CPU (double plus good)
- Linear 10-bit GPU/CPU (Experimental) (GPU Effects enhanced with linear 10-bit CPU filters)
- Added a visual preset browser for New > Image/Video from HTML generator. To add a thumbnail for your custom preset add a file named
<preset-name>.webpin the preset folder. - Added Chrome and Neon Flux HTML presets.
- Changed the preset folder for the HTML generator to
presets/HTML. - Fixed dissolve transition damages color (broke in v25.10).
- Fixed export on Windows not working with some special characters in a filename (broke in v25.10).
- Fixed Settings > Player > External Monitor > DeckLink Gamma > HLG HDR (broke in v25.10).
- Fixed Stereo Enhancer and Declick Audio filters (broke in v25.10).
- Fixed alpha channel is lost from a nested XML clip (broke in v25.10).
- Fixed 10-bit with amf (AMD) and mf (Windows on Arm) hardware encoders.
- Fixed Text: Typewriter cannot reduce blink rate to 0.
- Fixed the defaults when using New > Text > Typewriter.
- Added support for mov_text and SSA in Properties > Extract Subtitles.
- Added Minimize Shotcut and Record Audio to Screen Snapshot and Screen Recording.
- Fixed window not properly restored to maximized for Screen Snapshot.
- Fixed the selection rectangle was showing when using Screen Snapshot on Linux/X11.
- Added support for nvenc to Screen Recording on Linux/X11.
- Fixed the UI for the Downmix audio filter (broke in v25.05).
- Added a drop-down to the Filters menu’s Video button: GPU, 10-bit, Color, RGBA, YUV.
- Fixed custom colors in color dialogs are not saved in Qt 6.9 and up.
- Fixed clips are still replaced after stopping a Reverse or Convert job.
- Fixed Freeze Frame is not properly adjusting the start and end of existing filters.
- Fixed Toggle Keyframe at Playhead for Corner Pin video filter.
- Fixed Chroma Key: Simple overwrites the alpha channel including padding for a mismatched aspect ratio.
- Changed the Filters menu to default to Color filters in the Color layout/workspace and Audio filters in the Audio layout.
- Changed the VP8/9 WebM presets to offer greater control over quality and bitrate.
- Changed New > Animation (Glaxnimate) to Drawing/Animation to clarify not only for animation.
- Changed New Project > Project name to not permit
?to fix unloadable project. - Changed the Opacity video filter to increase maximum to 200% in order to decrease translucency.
- Changed the default for Settings > Timeline > Automatically Add Tracks to OFF (changed in v25.10).
- Fixed crash on MLT XML with extremely large (>8K) resolution (CVE-2025-65834).
- Fixed audio crackle artifacts with pcm_s24le in mkv.
- Fixed duration of markers are off by 1 frame in different ways and places.
- Fixed the appearance of toolbars under KDE/Linux when its Settings > Colors & Themes > Application Style > Configure Icons and Toolbars > Main toolbar label is **Beside icons **.
- Fixed a memory leak generate audio waveform data on media with an invalid duration that is extremely long.
- Fixed dragging media with a very long duration (> 1 day) to Timeline uses a lot of memory and unresponsive.
- Fixed crash when clicking Cancel in the Set Duration dialog (also related to very long or invalid duration).
- Fixed a memory leak in Filters panel.
- Fixed a crash in the player’s scrub bar.
- Fixed the shadow-clip vertical position when dragging a clip to Timeline with a subtitles track.
- Improved VA-API compatibility on our Linux AppImage, Portable, and Snap builds.
- Changed Screen Snapshot on macOS to show a toolbar to choose rectangle or fullscreen and whether to minimize.
- Removed Screen Recording on Windows 10–Snipping Tool does not support it.
- Upgrade zimg (used to convert HDR to SDR and to and from linear color) to version 3.0.6.
