Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor.
Following Shotcut's 26.1 release where hardware decoding was enabled by default and other improvements and then Shotcut 26.2 with more refinements, Shotcut 26.4 brings more nice enhancements for this one of the best open-source video editor apps.
Shotcut's timeline has been enhanced with symmetric resizing of a timeline transition, drag-and-drop from the "recent" area to the timeline, improved timeline zoom, and reduced memory usage when dealing with timeline waveforms.
Since Shotcut 24.10 in 2024 there has been Whipser.cpp for text-to-speech support with the OpenAI's Whisper model. New to Shotcut 26.4 is now supporting Vulkan acceleration for the Whisper.cpp usage for a more performant experience than just using the CPU back-end for that AI feature. This Vulkan acceleration has been tested on both Windows and Linux.
Shotcut 26.4 also adds 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets. Downloads and more details on the Shotcut 26.4 improvements via Shotcut.org.
Following Shotcut's 26.1 release where hardware decoding was enabled by default and other improvements and then Shotcut 26.2 with more refinements, Shotcut 26.4 brings more nice enhancements for this one of the best open-source video editor apps.
Shotcut's timeline has been enhanced with symmetric resizing of a timeline transition, drag-and-drop from the "recent" area to the timeline, improved timeline zoom, and reduced memory usage when dealing with timeline waveforms.
Since Shotcut 24.10 in 2024 there has been Whipser.cpp for text-to-speech support with the OpenAI's Whisper model. New to Shotcut 26.4 is now supporting Vulkan acceleration for the Whisper.cpp usage for a more performant experience than just using the CPU back-end for that AI feature. This Vulkan acceleration has been tested on both Windows and Linux.
Shotcut 26.4 also adds 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets. Downloads and more details on the Shotcut 26.4 improvements via Shotcut.org.