Shotcut 24.11.17/XNUMX/XNUMX: What's new in the latest version available
Just like last month (October, 2024) when we dedicated two useful and pertinent publications on lThe latest news from two great free and open source multimedia applications, ideal for content creators, both professional and beginner, called Kdenlive y Pitivi, today we will address the news of the new version of «Shotcut 24.11.17» to complement recent developments on Open Shot 3.2.1.
Which, as snews, information and training website of the Linuxverse (Free Software, Open Source, GNU/Linux and +BSD) This comes to us at the right time, since it has been a long time (2 years) since we have dedicated a space to such a useful and well-known multimedia tool on our website. Consequently, this publication will be dedicated not only to learning about the latest developments regarding it, but also to reviewing What is Shotcut and what it is currently like?, as we have done on many occasions with other free, open source development projects in our exciting IT field.
Shotcut: A Free, Open Source, Cross-Platform Video Editor
But, before we start exploring and unveiling the news of this great and Useful Video Editor in its new stable version called «Shotcut 24.11.17», we recommend you explore a previous related post With this same multimedia tool, at the end of it:
Shotcut is a simple and handy video editor that implements support for video and audio formats via FFmpeg software. You can use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects that are compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. In addition, it offers the possibility of multitrack editing with video composition of fragments in various source formats, without the need to import them previously or transcode them.
About Shotcut and the new features of the new version 24.11.17
What is Shot Cut?
According to Official website of this multimedia tool called Shotcut, it is briefly described as follows:
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, which was originally conceived in November 2004 by Charlie Yates based on the MLT software. However, the current version of Shotcut is a complete rewrite by Dan Dennedy in order to work more correctly with the new cross-platform capabilities of MLT, especially in conjunction with the WebVfx and Movit plugins. This has resulted in a software capable of offering high compatibility with a wide variety of formats without requiring their import, thus allowing native editing of them on the timeline.
Current main features
There are many the notable or relevant features that Shotcut offers, according to the official development team of this free and open source project. But, without a doubt, among the most striking and important are some like the following:
- Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
- Support for popular image formats such as AVIF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP, as well as image sequences.
- The ability to create, import, edit, export, render and embed subtitles.
- The ability to import SRT, VTT, ASS and SSA subtitle formats.
- An excellent and complete Volume Control, set of Audio Filters and Audio Mixing capabilities on all tracks.
- Robust normal video and 3D video filter capabilities, utilizing 3-way color wheels (shadows, mids, highlights) for color correction and grading, and audio fade in/out and video fade out with easy-to-use fade controls on the timeline.
- High and flexible editing capabilities, which allow and facilitate routine or basic actions such as cutting, copying and pasting, to more complex ones such as appending, inserting, overwriting, lifting and deleting ripples in the timeline. And others such as being able to create, play, edit, save, load and export (render) various multimedia contents.
What's new in Shotcut version 22.11.17
Given the, This version is maintenance according to the official launch announcement, really alone includes a small collection of solutions to improve its use and user experience. And among those reported have been some such as the following:
- Fixed the Reframe feature losing keyframes when exporting content.
- Fixed using Export Function > From > Bookmark with Captions creating incorrect output.
- Fixed a video transition between sources with alpha channel being more translucent than expected.
- Fixed a crash when adding MLT XML as a clip to a timeline with a higher frame rate.
- Fixed View > Resources > Convert function negatively affecting output color if the input is not HDR.
- Prevented the Convert function from stopping during the conversion process from variable to constant frame rates.
- Fixed filter in and out points being filtered when resizing the transition by moving a clip.
- Fixed the Settings > Time Format > Timecode (no dropped frames) function causing errors, making it possible to improve editing with frame rates up to 23.98 fps.
- Fixed issues (unpredictable behavior) that occurred when moving a clip immediately after a transition past another clip, making transitions a smoother and more reliable experience.
- Additionally, various fixes have been added related to: The Export > Video > Aspect Ratio feature crashing immediately after toggling Use Hardware Encoder, a possible crash on File > New or File > Close, a possible crash when dragging an MLT XML file into a new project/session playlist, and a performance issue when changing parameters in Properties > Audio > Track > All.
Screenshots of the new version
Summary
In summary, and like the other 3 previous multimedia tools that we have recently discussed (Pitivi, Kdenlive and OpenShot) we can say with precision and sincerity that, it is Latest and recent update of «Shotcut Video Editor» under version number 24.11.17 makes it clear that this free, open source project from the Linuxverse is still active and in full process of development, improvement and innovation. And surely, Next year (2025) will continue to offer us new versions, with more interesting and useful new features. which will bring many new features and benefits for the most diverse users and creators of multimedia content. Meanwhile, next month, we hope to bring you news about other similar applications such as LosslessCut, Avidemux, Olive and Flowblade.
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