{"id":51571,"date":"2026-07-17T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=51571"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:17:54","slug":"shotcut-26-7-option-to-choose-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/shotcut-26-7-option-to-choose-gpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotcut 26.7 Added Option to Choose Which Physical GPU to Work With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-48030\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shotcut-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just three weeks after the last release, Shotcut video editor rolled out the new 26.7.16 version today for Windows, Mac and Linux users.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor is <i>marked as a pre-release<\/i> that features built-in emojis, new video filter, and various fixes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, the new version introduced a <b>new shake video filter<\/b> which can apply effect to your video clip, so it looks like it was recorded by someone holding a camera with slightly unsteady hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51572\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-shakefilter-700x463.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-shakefilter-700x463.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-shakefilter-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-shakefilter-768x508.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-shakefilter.webp 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This version also added new &#8220;Elements&#8221; widget which can be enabled by File -&gt; New \/ View menu, Generate button, or Ctrl+Shift+2 keyboard shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>With it you can quickly add <b>emojis<\/b>, such as smileys &amp; emotion, animals, food, drink, objects, and other digital icons, in your videos, add <b>noise sounds<\/b> (e.g., fire, laugh, whistle, cartoon bubbles and more), insert <b>transitions<\/b> to connect your video clips, and create other items, such as animated text, speech bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>All the elements are <i>royalty free<\/i>, including for commercial use, and, they do not require attribution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51573\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-emoji-700x419.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-emoji-700x419.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-emoji-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-emoji-768x460.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut-emoji.webp 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For Linux and Windows users with multiple GPUs, there&#8217;s now <b>Graphics Adapter<\/b> submenu under Settings, allowing to choose which physical GPU that the video editor renders, decodes, and encodes with.<\/p>\n<p>Even when you have integrated GPU driving the display, and a discrete GPU (such as NVIDIA graphics card) with no monitor attached, it supports direct preview rendering, hardware decoding and hardware export to the discrete GPU.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51574\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51574\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51574\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pc-intergratedgpu-700x560.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pc-intergratedgpu-700x560.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pc-intergratedgpu-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pc-intergratedgpu-768x615.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pc-intergratedgpu.webp 1402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image created by ChatGPT<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <code>--experimental UI<\/code> generator introduced in the last release now also generates a <code>meta.qml<\/code> metadata description file. And, the Fusion Dark and Fusion Light themes have been updated to make active tab more obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes are mostly bug-fixes. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better HDR support.<\/li>\n<li>Fix missing of VST2 and LV2 audio plugins support.<\/li>\n<li>Fix Motion Tracker keyframes not applying after save\/reload.<\/li>\n<li>Fix opening a <code>.mlt<\/code> file from a file manager on macOS.<\/li>\n<li>Enable console logging on Windows in debug mode.<\/li>\n<li>Remove unused Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Get Shotcut 26.7<\/h3>\n<p>The official release note, as well as the installer packages for Linux, Windows, macOS are available in Github project page via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mltframework\/shotcut\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Shotcut (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Linux, select download the <b>AppImage<\/b> (only for modern Intel\/AMD), add executable permission from its Properties dialog, finally click Run to launch the video editor.<\/p>\n<p>Tips: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to enable:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install libfuse2<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut26716-appimage-700x423.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut26716-appimage-700x423.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut26716-appimage-300x181.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut26716-appimage-768x464.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shotcut26716-appimage.webp 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu user may also search &amp; install the Snap package from App Center (or Ubuntu Software), while, an official <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.shotcut.Shotcut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> is also available for most Linux which runs in sandbox.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three weeks after the last release, Shotcut video editor rolled out the new 26.7.16 version today for Windows, Mac and Linux users. The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor is marked as a pre-release that features built-in emojis, new video filter, and various 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-51571","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\/51571","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=51571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571\/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=51571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}