Shotcut
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5recommend
0warn against
Nov 9, 2025first mention
Aug 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Shotcut works everywhere”
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“I highly recommend you give Shotcut a chance.”
“I used https://www.shotcut.org/ to edit a few videos, it has many effects.”
“I've used Shotcut, it's simple and easy”
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“Shotcut works everywhere”
For our use-case, a $50 course package sale for getting Blender -> Fusion workflow just made sense. https://www.udemy.com/course/davinci-resolve-training-course/ https://www.udemy.com/course/fusion_blender_vfx/ (needs the paid studio version) Compared to other options, the one-time cost was our best tradeoff for the project. It was a much better value than adobe subscriptions water-marking everything. A low bar to cl
“I have been using Shotcut for a while”
“simple to learn”
“I highly recommend you give Shotcut a chance.”
“I used https://www.shotcut.org/ to edit a few videos, it has many effects.”
“For editing I used https://www.shotcut.org/ , not easy, but there are just too many things to configure.”
“I've used Shotcut, it's simple and easy”
“FOSS options (KDEnlive, Openshot, Shotcut, Avidemux etc)”