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Shotcut, the free open-source MLT based video editor, finally announced the 26.6 release after a month of Beta testing.<\/p>\n
The new version of this Qt-based video editor introduced some new plugins support, HDR preview, Vulkan in FFmpeg, external monitor improvements, and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n
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First, the new version introduced limited support for external audio and video plugins<\/b>. Advanced users can now load OpenFX image effect plugins and\/or VST2 and LV2 audio plugins, from the standard system directories.<\/p>\n
By launching the video editor with new It will open a new dialog which lists ALL available filters, including the external plugins. And, you can select and de-select MLT filters to show or hide them in\/from the main filter selection. This is useful for exploring filters, especially the host of OpenFx filters.<\/p>\n As the features above are experimental. The video editor may crash due to bugs. If Shotcut crashes within 30 seconds upon startup, it will restart in a safe mode without external (OpenFX, VST2) plugins. While, user may go to Besides experimental external filters support, Shotcut 26.6 also introduced Vulkan Display Method support for Linux<\/b>. User can go to In addition, the 26.6 version added back using an additional system display as an external monitor<\/b>. A new It as well added support for PQ HDR and the metadata dialogs to Other changes include:<\/p>\n The official release note, installer packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, as well as the source tarball are available in Github project page via the link below:<\/p>\n For Linux, select download the AppImage<\/b> (for modern Intel\/AMD), add executable permission from the Properties dialog, finally click Run to launch the video editor.<\/p>\n Tips: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the required library:<\/p>\n Ubuntu user may search & install the Snap package from App Center (or Ubuntu Software), while, an official Flatpak package<\/a>Flatpak package<\/a> is also available for most Linux though runs in sandbox.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shotcut, the free open-source MLT based video editor, finally announced the 26.6 release after a month of Beta testing. The new version of this Qt-based video editor introduced some new plugins support, HDR preview, Vulkan in FFmpeg, external monitor improvements, and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-51479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-video-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}--experimental<\/code> command line option, you’ll see a new “Manage Add-on Filters”<\/b> setting gear icon in the add filter widget.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shotcut-filtersetting-700x430.webp\")
<\/p>\nSettings<\/code> -> Leave Safe Mode<\/code> to re-enable them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/manage-addon-filters.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\nSettings<\/code> -> Display Method<\/code> menu to switch from OpenGL to Vulkan, though it needs an app restart to apply change.<\/p>\nPlayer<\/code> -> External Monitor<\/code> -> Preview Window (HDR)<\/code> is added to open video preview in a new separated window in external monitor. It however does not work along with the “Use Old Video Output” option, and, the HDR preview is not working on Linux and Windows\/ARM so far.<\/p>\nExternal Monitor<\/code> -> DeckLink<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
Get Shotcut 26.6<\/h3>\n
\nDownload Shotcut (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nsudo apt install libfuse2<\/pre>\n
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