Shotcut, the free open-source Qt-based video editor, released the Beta for next 25.07 few days ago.

The new release of the cross-platform video editor fixed various bugs, and introduced new features to enhance video editing experience.

As you may know, the video editor has a feature called “Scrub While Dragging“. It tells the player to seek to the Timeline position at the left edge of the clip you are dragging, meaning that the playhead moves when you are dragging.

Previously, the feature works when your drag trimming on the source. Now, it also works when trimming video clips in timeline. And, when trimming by hold the Ctrl key, the release also trim the neighbor clip.

To reduce the app installation size, the release does not include GGML model for the Speech to Text any more.

Instead, when you trigger the dialog, it asks you whether to download a standard model. While, it also lists many other models, allowing to one click to download.

The release also added target channels toggle buttons to many audio filters, including Band Pass, Compressor, Delay, Downmix, Equalizer: 3-Band / 15-Band, Expander, Mute, Noise Gate, Notch, and more, which is especially useful for surround work.

Other changes in Shotcut 2507 Beta include:

• Ability to add multiple Mask: Apply filters.
• Support for 4 channels in Copy Channel filter.
• Add fader and surround balance to Balance filter if channels > 2.
• Drag the waveform peak line to adjust gain.
• New “Adjust Clip Gain/Volume” option under Settings -> Timeline.
• Add Audio/Video duration to the Slideshow Generator.
• Hold Shift to ripple-trim when Ripple is off.

How to Get Shotcut 25.07 Beta

The official release note and installers for Linux, Windows, macOS are available to download in Github releases page along with source tarball via the link below:

For Linux, select download the AppImage. Then, you may click Run the package to launch the video editor, after adding executable permission in file Properties dialog.

Tips: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box. If it does not launch, try to open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the required library:

sudo apt install libfuse2