Shotcut, the open-source, cross-platform, and free video editor, has unveiled an update to version 24.04. This new version amplifies Ambisonic spatial (spherical) audio support and addresses a variety of bugs.
Launched nearly two months after Shotcut 24.02, this update brings an Ambisonic Encoder audio filter to boost the Ambisonic spatial (spherical) audio support integrated in the former version. Furthermore, Shotcut 24.04 includes an indication to the on-video control for the newly launched Ambisonic Decoder audio filter.
Shotcut 24.04 also reveals two new view scopes, specifically Audio Vector and Audio Surround. It introduces a new Time Format setting to display everywhere that timecode is exhibited or editable. The update also launches a fresh “Apply Copied Filters” option to Timeline > Edit menu and the context menu. This supports the processing of several selected video clips.
Additionally, this Shotcut update provides Undo and Redo support for actions such as adding, removing, and changing keyframes to several filters like Fade In Audio, Fade Out Audio, Gain/Volume, Brightness, Color Grading, Contrast, Fade In Video, Fade Out Video, Text: Rich, Size, Position & Rotate, and White Balance.
Several bugs were addressed to improve the Elastic Scale video filter to distort with preview scaling, the Settings > Audio Channels > 4 (quad) option, the Zoom Timeline to Fit option, as well as batch analysis for the Stabilize video filter on export with a project folder.
Also fixed is a crash that occurred if the Keyframes panel is in a tab group along with the Filters panel, color support in Properties > Convert > Best if the input video is BT.709 without signaling, conversion prompt when dropping incompatible video files, and the Filters panel to apply changes after moving the clip on the Timeline.
Check out the release notes for extra reading and technical details about the changes included in this update. Meanwhile, you can download Shotcut 24.04 from the official website as a universal AppImage or portable Linux binary that you can run on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
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