The release of the video editor Shotcut 24.06 is available, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. One of the features of Shotcut is the possibility of multi-track editing with arranging video from fragments in various source formats, without the need to first import or re-encode them. There are built-in tools for creating screencasts, processing images from a web camera and receiving streaming video. Qt is used to build the interface. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Ready-made builds are available for Linux (AppImage, flatpak and snap), macOS and Windows.
Among the changes in the new release:
- Added an AV1 video encoder based on the SVT-AV1 library, allowing for higher encoding speeds on systems without hardware acceleration support for the AV1 format, thanks to the use of hardware parallel computing capabilities available on Intel CPUs.
- Added support for images in the AVIF (AV1 Image Format) format, which uses intra-frame compression technologies from the AV1 video encoding format.
- Added a Drop Shadow filter to create shadows using an alpha channel (the filter applies to content with a transparent background, such as a text layer overlaid on top of the content).
- Added video filter “Brightness” (“Vibrance”), which differs from the “Saturation” filter by focusing on adjusting not all but the current saturation parameters, for example, so as not to distort skin tones.
- Added the “Mid-Side Matrix” audio filter to convert spatial audio recording from Mid-Side microphones (two microphones, one directed at the sound source, and the other placed to the side) into regular stereo sound.
- Added support for intermediate recording to DJI LRF (MP4) files.
- Improved processing of video with variable frame rates.
- The builds have updated versions of Qt 6.7, dav1d 1.4.2, FFmpeg 7.0, OpenCV 4.9.0 and VMAF 3.0.0.
- Added test assemblies for the Windows platform, compiled for the ARM64 architecture.
Source: opennet.ru
