shotcut

Hardware Video Decoding!

"What took so long?" you might ask. A good way to manage it across all operating systems and GPU vendor APIs. We have a FAQ topic about this. Management comes in the forms of operating system abstraction APIs, hardware scaling, and a threshold limiter.

**Settings > Previ...

• Fixed Brightness filter with a reduced level is different when there is clip with transparency above it (broke in v25.12).
• Fixed a crash in the scrub-bar on a very long playlist.
• Fixed app not responding while enqueuing very many proxy jobs.
• Fixed Previous/Next in Subtitles may be unreadable on some themes and OS.
• Changed bulk proxy generation (when you switch **Settings > Pr...

This version hot-fixes problems found in 25.12.30:

• Fixed nesting MLT XML stopped working.
• Fixed Screen Recording missing on Linux and macOS.
• Fixed Stabilize video filter on macOS.

See the 25.12 release notes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/compare/v25.12.30...v25.12.31

Higher Bit Depth: 10-bit Video CPU Pipeline

What is "bit depth?" That is the number of colors or video brightness levels. 8-bit has only 256 values per color component, for example, red/green/blue. 10 bits has 1024 levels. Previously, 10-bit video sources were only partially supported using GPU Effects and only GPU filters. Without GPU Effects (CPU), in order to stay in thee 10 bit spac...

• Added Settings > Processing Mode for video processing. This affects both preview and export.
  • Native 8-bit CPU (same as previous version without GPU Effects; fast)
  • ~~Linear 8-bit CPU~~ (removed since this beta release due to poor quality)
  • Native 10-bit CPU (better image quality with 10-bit input or output)
  • Linear 10-bit CPU (better color accuracy for interp...