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Shotcut v26.8.1

👉 Free, open-source, cross-platform video editor with powerful editing and format support.

Shotcut is a free, open-source video editor that provides a wide range of professional-grade features for video editing without requiring expensive software. It supports hundreds of audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg and offers native timeline editing, meaning you can work with media without first importing or converting files.

Shotcut features a flexible, dockable interface, powerful video and audio filters, multi-track timeline editing, and support for resolutions up to 8K. It is designed to be accessible to beginners while offering advanced tools for more experienced users, including color grading, keyframing, and detailed audio controls.




Features:
• Native timeline editing without import
• Wide format support via FFmpeg
• Multi-track video and audio editing
• Video effects and filters including color grading tools
• Audio filters including compression, gain, balance, and more
• Keyframeable filters for advanced animation and effects
• 4K and 8K resolution support
• Hardware encoding support
• Flexible, dockable and customizable interface
• Playlist panel with thumbnail view and drag-and-drop support

Supported operating systems:
• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
• macOS 10.14 or higher
• Linux (64-bit)

Supported languages:
English, Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmεl, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Changes:
v26.8.1 08-01-26
Elements 🔥
Added Elements panel to the File > New and View menus and the Generate buttons.
This is a very slim (22MB) stock asset library: emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, graphics.
The content licenses are royalty free, including commercial, and do not require attribution:
Emojis: Open Font License 1.1
Sounds: The Sonniss #GameAudioGDC Bundle Licensing Agreement
Text, Transitions, Graphics: Lottie Simple License

Changes
Added Settings > Graphics Adapter for Windows and Linux (only if multiple GPUs).
Added Shake video filter.
First generated UI to be shared and officially adopted.
The --experimental UI generator now also generates a meta.qml.
(See View > Application Log to get the temp file names to copy and share these files.)
Improved appearance of tabs and Subtitles in Fusion Dark and Fusion Light themes.

Fixes
Fixed opening a .mlt project file from a file manager on macOS (broke in v26.6).
Fixed corrupt color in dissolve transitions with Settings > Processing Mode > Linear 10-bit CPU.
Fixed the new Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise) when the export audio sample rate is not 48000 Hz.
Fixed off-by-one frame errors in subtitle bar in Timeline and Subtitle Burn In video filter.
Fixed all builds missing support for VST2 and LV2 audio plugins.
Now install and try the Valhalla Supermassive VST plugin.
Fixed a libGLESv2.dll warning on startup on some Windows systems.
Fixed Motion Tracker keyframes not applying after save/reload.
Fixed manual override QSG_RHI_BACKEND environment variable on Windows.
Fixed Properties > Convert & View > Resources > Convert to keep 10-bit video as 10-bit when using 10-bit processing modes.
Fixed the Crop: Source filter with Preview Scaling and hardware decoder.
Fixed proxy video generated for rotated video (Properties > Rotation) not preserving rotation.





👉 This download is for the Windows installable (Windows 10/11) version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:



Other Windows:
shotcut-win64-26.8.1.zip (Windows 10/11)
shotcut-win64-221221.exe (Windows 7/8)
shotcut-win64-221221.zip (Windows 7/8)
shotcut-win_ARM-26.8.1.exe (Windows ARM)
shotcut-win_ARM-26.8.1.zip (Windows ARM)

macOS Universal:
shotcut-macos-26.8.1.dmg (64-bit macOS 12+)
shotcut-macos-241117.dmg(macOS 11+)
shotcut-macos-240131.dmg (macOS 10.14/10.15)

Linux:
shotcut-linux-x86_64-26.8.1.AppImage
shotcut-linux-x86_64-26.8.1.txz


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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
12,389 31,801 Meltytech, LLC. Sep 17, 2026 - 11:54 26.8.1 155.13MB EXE 5/5, out of 97 Votes.
File Tags
Shotcut  video  8K  platform  cross  free  editing  source  open  editor  FFmpeg  4K  
      
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