Shotcut is a free, open source video editor for professionals that has everything you need to create sparkling videos without watermarks with tons of advanced editing features. It can work on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Our Review
While we are on our way looking for a free, open source, powerful video editor, we found Shotcut. At the first time, we are really curious about this tool since it is rated as one of the best free video editor at present time. And when digging into its features and capabilities, we must agree that this is a superb free video editor for novice and casual users who are looking for a free option to start making videos.
It is not as powerful as professional video editing programs such as FCP X, Adobe Premiere Pro, VEGAS Pro 15 or other affordable video editors like Filmora Video Editor or Movavi. However, it includes everything you need to make simple videos for uploading to YouTube and other video sharing platforms.
Shotcut Pros
- It’s completely free to use, no watermark on the outputs.
- Possible to edit and render 4K videos.
- Includes advance features such as multiple track editing timeline, chroma key, load of video and audio effect.
- Video rendering speed is quite impressive.
Shotcut Cons
- Program can shut down unexpectedly while editing for no reason.
- Adding transition between clips can be painful.
- Lack of customer support service.
- Working with title, text can takes more time compare to other paid software, such as Filmora, or Movavi which includes load of ready to use templates.
Bottom line
Shotcut is one of the best free video editors out there. For those of you who don’t have a budget for video editing software, this is a great option to go. It’s great for getting started. But, if you have a budget for buying a software, I would recommend you to look at some other paid programs out there. Want to learn Shotcut? Watch my detail tutorial of Shotcut at below video:
Shotcut brief information
Intuitive User’s Interface: Shotcut has a logical and smart arrangement of editing tools on their interface. It is as similar as classic Window Movie Maker from Microsoft plus many extras. You can change the interface color to what you want. It support more than 30 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean…and so on.
Editing features: While the Cut, split, Copy, Paste tools are on the timeline pane, all the effects are gathered in the Filter tab so that you can easily add to the video by click on Plus button. You are able to adjust, customize each effect easily. In order to import video, audio for editing, you only need to drag-n-drop to shotcut Window. It is really simple.
Effects there are about 40 different types of effect you can add to your video including Chroma key (green screen), 3D Text, color correction, invert color, transition like fade in/out, Blur effect, overlay… and many more. These effects are more than we need to create a movie for professional video product.
Various Export formats While other free video editors output file export capability is very limited, Shotcut provides almost all type of video output format for you with up to 60fps, full HD resolution. More important, the output files will not have a watermark like others.
Shotcut Alternative?
For better rendering video speed, you can try ActivePresenter – Free video editor with built-in screen recorder for Windows and Mac. This program has all necessary tools you need for making how-to videos, product demos and software simulations professionally.
Feature description of ActivePresenter in brief
- Capture and edit various video formats.
- Record PC’s screen in full HD quality without time limit.
- Add text, shapes, effect to video easily.
- Add multiple video and audio track to the timeline.
- Export video into MP4, AVI, MKV without watermark.
Where to download Shotcut – Go to this page: https://www.shotcut.org/download/
This is what you can read on the page
We pledge that our downloads are always free of malware, spyware, and adware. Furthermore, we refuse to bundle any software unrelated to Shotcut such as browser toolbars or download managers. However, we can only provide that guarantee if you come to this website to download.
Linux Zip file Users: No install required, simply extract the archive and run it. You can drag the Shotcut folder to copy and move it wherever you want. If double-clicking the icon in your file manager does not launch Shotcut, open Shotcut.app, and try double-clicking the shotcut shell script. Do not try to run bin/shotcut directly. You may need to install the following dependencies from their distribution (the exact names may vary): SDL, libexif, and JACK. A number of the audio filters such as Band Pass, Bass & Treble, Compressor, Delay, Expander, High Pass, Limiter, Low Pass, Notch, and Reverb requires that you install the SWH LADSPA plugins package, which is commonly available in all distributions.
Final Words
It is no doubt that Shotcut is a perfect free video editor that you can use to make sparkling videos like we said above. You can not expect more features from a free program like Shotcut. Try it and let us know your opinion.
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It doesn’t have Watermark for sure, Ari!
Before using Shotcut, I’d like to know, will the application add a watermark to my final product? I don’t want to put so much work into an edit and come to the conclusion of it having a watermark over it.
Sorry. I don’t know too. Maybe i will put RSS in the side bar now. Try again please.
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