Shotcut
Open-source video editing software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Also known as
- shotcut
What is Shotcut?
A free video editor that runs on multiple platforms and supports hundreds of audio and video formats natively. It provides professional editing capabilities including color grading, multitrack audio mixing, GPU-accelerated effects processing, and support for 4K/8K video.
Shotcut pricing
We don't have Shotcut's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free and open source
What Shotcut does
The capabilities that matter for video editing software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Professional NLE (multi-track finishing)
- ✓
- Colour grading
- ✓
- Multicam editing
- -
- 4K/8K + HDR support
- ✓
- Codec breadth (ProRes / HEVC / AV1 / RAW)
- Hundreds of formats via FFmpeg, including AV1, HEVC, image sequences, and animat
- GPU acceleration
- ✓
- AI features (captions / text-to-video / voice)
- -
- Screen recording built-in
- ✓
- Platform breadth (Win / macOS / Linux / iOS / Android / Web)
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Cloud collaboration / team review
- -
- Pricing model
- Open-source
- Free / open-source available
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- FFmpeg•
- Blackmagic Design•
- After Effects•
- JACK•
- PulseAudio•
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Compare Shotcut
Side by side against other video editing software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Shotcut, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.07 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.08 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Stars | 0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hdr 4k8k: Yes · Free or oss: Yes · Codec breadth: Hundreds of formats via FFmpeg, including AV1, HEVC, image sequences, and animat · Color grading: Yes · Pricing model: open_source · Gpu acceleration: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-31 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-31 · 60% |