This simple and brief tutorial will show you how to install Shotcut Video Editor in Ubuntu.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor with following features:
- supports oodles of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
- supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
- no import required – native editing
- frame-accurate seeking for many formats
- multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
- screen capture (Linux only) including background capture to capture a Shotcut session
- webcam capture (Linux only)
- audio capture (Linux only; PulseAudio, JACK, or ALSA)
- network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
- frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
- Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
- JACK transport sync
- deinterlacing
- detailed media properties panel
- recent files panel
- drag-n-drop files from file manager
- save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
- load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
- audio signal level meter
- volume control
- scrubbing and transport control
- flexible UI through dock-able panels
- encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
- capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK, PulseAudio, IP streams, X11 screen
- stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
- batch encoding with job control
- create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML playlists
- unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
- connect to Melted servers over MVCP TCP protocol
- control the transport playback of Melted units
- edit Melted playlists including suport for undo/redo
- OpenGL GPU-based image processing
- multi-core parallel image processing when not using GPU (and frame-dropping is disabled)
- video filters: Blur, Color Grading, Crop, Glow, Mirror, Saturation, Sharpen
- 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
- eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
- translated to Spanish, French, Czech, and German
Install Shotcut Video Editor in Ubuntu:
The official website provides the non-install version for Ubuntu 12.04 and higher, but you need to manually create a launcher icon.
1.) First, download the latest packages from the Official download page. You may check 32-bit or 64-bit by System Settings -> Details -> Overview.
2.) Open File Browser with root permission by press Alt+F2 and input gksudo nautilus
3.) Navigate to “Computer/Home/USERNAME/Downloads/”, copy and paste the downloaded package to “Computer/opt/” folder. Then extract it. Finally drag and drop the shortcut to Unity Launcher.
To add an icon to Unity Dash, run following 2 commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new
In pop-up dialog, type command: /opt/Shotcut/Shotcut.app/shotcut and others free.