

You can cut long videos, group multiple clips together, and even add simple transition effects such as fade out/fade in options or visual filters (like saturation, glow, blur effects, or vignette). The timeline on the bottom is where you'll be doing your trimming, cutting, and layering. Source clips appear in a panel on the top left of the screen, and a preview window rests on the top right. Whenever you import raw footage into Shotcut you can see its thumbnail right away, allowing you to more easily pick it out and place it where you need. It'll appear right on the timeline and you can get to work right away. Click 'open file,' scroll through your File Explorer, and simply click on the file you want to add.


Its design is spartan the UI and effects are sparse, but the interface is intuitive and intelligent. Shotcut is a no-hassle, simple but effective tool for editing your content. Same for if a clip is very short and has the start on the edge of the visible timeline.Īnother workflow is click & hold + drag on the timeline to move the playhead is very dangerous now near the edges of the timeline as it will continously flip pages basically to the end of the entire project so instead of moving a few seconds to the right (as I expected before) I end up 30 minutes to the right.Shotcut's design is spartan the UI and effects are sparse, but the interface is intuitive and intelligent.Editing a video is hard enough without having to fight your software every step of the way. This is an unexpected change that made room for some weird interactions that left we very stumped as I had no idea something changed.įor example double clicking a clip that has it’s start outside visible timeline (aka, to the left) now position the current clip mostly outside to the right of visible timeline when the main action I do is trim current clip so further manual scrolling is needed. It is an intentional change to the way timeline scrolling works.
