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            <h3>Wide Format Support</h3>
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                <li>Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html">FFmpeg</a></li>
                <li>Supports popular image formats such as AVIF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG,
                TIFF, WebP as well as image sequences</li>
                <li>Lottie, rawr, Rive, and After Effects animations</li>
                <li>Create, import, edit, export, render, and embed subtitles</li>
                <li>Imports subtitle formats SRT, VTT, ASS, and SSA</li>
                <li>No import required - native timeline editing</li>
                <li>Frame-accurate seeking for many formats</li>
                <li>Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates
                    within a project</li>
                <li>Webcam capture</li>
                <li>Audio capture</li>
                <li>Support for 4K &amp; 8K resolutions</li>
                <li>Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)</li>
                <li><a href="https://frei0r.dyne.org/">Frei0r</a> video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)</li>
                <li>Color, text, noise, and counter generators</li>
                <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list">EDL</a> (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export</li>
                <li>Export single frame as image or video as image sequence</li>
                <li>Videos files with alpha channel - both reading and writing</li>
                <li>HDR10 (PQ) and HLG HDR</li>
                <li>Tone mapping HDR to SDR</li>
                <li>Optional full range video input, processing, and export</li>
                <li>10-bit video end-to-end</li>
                <li>Linear color processing</li>
                <li>Batch conversion</li>
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            <h3>Audio Features</h3>
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                <li>Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer, surround, vector</li>
                <li>Volume control</li>
                <li>Audio filters:<br>Ambisonic Decoder, Ambisonic Encoder, Balance/Fader, Band Pass,
                    Compressor, Copy Channel, Declick, Delay, Downmix,
                    Equalizer: 3-Band, Equalizer: 15-Band, Equalizer: Parametric,
                    Expander, Gain, High Pass, Invert,
                    Limiter, Low Pass, Mid-Side Matrix, Noise Gate, Normalize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass,
                    Notch, Pan, Pitch, Reverb, Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise), 
                    Stereo Enhancer, Swap Channels, Track Auto Fade, Track Seam</li>
                <li>VST2 and LV2 audio plugins (work-in-progress)</li>
                <li>Audio mixing across all tracks</li>
                <li>Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with
                    easy-to-use fader controls on timeline</li>
                <li>Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by
                    overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline</li>
                <li>JACK transport sync</li>
                <li>Tone generator</li>
                <li>Stereo, mono, 5.1 surround, quad surround, and Ambisonic spatial audio configurations</li>
                <li>Pitch compensation for video speed changes</li>
                <li>Record directly to timeline for voiceover, for example</li>
                <li>Convert spoken word to subtitle text and text-to-speech</li>
                <li>Automatic audio ducking</li>
                <li>Mixing UI in the timeline</li>
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            <h3 style="margin-top: 5px;">Video Effects</h3>
            <ul><li>Video compositing across video tracks</li>
                <li>3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading</li>
                <li>Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing</li>
                <li>Deinterlacing</li>
                <li>Auto-rotate with manual override</li>
                <li>Fade in/out audio and fade video with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline</li>
                <li>Video <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_(transition)">wipe
                    transitions:</a><br>bar, barn door, box, clock (radial),
                    diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image</li>
                <li>Track compositing/blending modes:<br>None, Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply,
                    Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light,
                    Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color,
                    HSL Luminosity.</li>
                <li>Video Filters:<br>Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Alpha Strobe,
                  Audio Dance Visualization, Audio Level Visualization, Audio Light Visualization,
                  Audio Spectrum Visualization, Audio Waveform Visualization,
                  Blend Mode, Blur: Box, Blur: Exponential, Blur: Gaussian, Blur: Low Pass,
                  Blur: Pad, Brightness, Choppy, Chroma Hold, Chroma Key: Advanced,
                  Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Corner Pin, Crop: Source,
                  Crop: Circle, Crop: Rectangle, Deband, Distort, Dither, Drop Shadow, Elastic Scale,
                  Flip, Fisheye, Glitch, Glow, GPS Graphic, GPS Text, Gradient, Gradient Map,
                  Grid, Halftone, HSL Primaries, HSL Range,
                  Hue/Lightness/Saturation, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple,
                  Lens Correction, Levels, 3D LUT, Mask: Apply, Mask: Chroma Key, Mask: From File, Mask: Simple Shape,
                  Mirror, Mosaic, Motion Tracker, Nervous, No Sync, Noise: Fast, Noise: Keyframes,
                  Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor,
                  Opacity, Outline, Posterize, Reduce Noise: HQ3DN, Reduce Noise: Quantization,
                  Reduce Noise: Smart Blur, Reduce Noise: Wavelet, Reflect,
                  RGB Shift, Rotate and Scale, Saturation, Scan Lines,
                  Sepia Tone, Shake, Sharpen, Size and Position, Sketch, Speed: Forward Only,
                  Speed: Forward &amp; Reverse, Spot Remover,
                  Stabilize, Subtitle Burn In, Text: Rich, Text: Simple, Threshold, Time Remap,
                  Timer, Track Auto Fade Video, Trails, Vertigo, Vibrance, Vignette, Unpremultiply Alpha,
                  Wave, White Balance</li>
                <li>360&deg; Video Filters:<br>Equirectangular Mask,
                  360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear,
                  360: Equirectangular to Stereographic,
                  360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular,
                  360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular,
                  360: Stabilize,
                  360: Transform
                <li>OpenFX  image effect plugins (work-in-progress)</li>
                <li>Speed ramping for audio/video clips</li>
                <li>Reverse a clip</li>
                <li>Freeze frame</li>
                <li>Object motion tracking</li>
                <li>Generate image or video from HTML</li>
                <li>Adjustment clip</li>
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            <h3 style="margin-top: 5px;">Editing Features</h3>
            <ul><li>Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option</li>
                <li>Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations</li>
                <li>Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the
                    timeline</li>
                <li>3-point editing</li>
                <li>Hide, mute, and lock track controls</li>
                <li>Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms</li>
                <li>Undo and redo</li>
                <li>Create, play, edit, save, load, and export (render) MLT XML projects (with auto-save)</li>
                <li>Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file</li>
                <li>Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip</li>
                <li>Drag-n-drop files from file manager</li>
                <li>Scrubbing and transport control</li>
                <li>Keyframes for filter parameters</li>
                <li>Easing functions for keyframes</li>
                <li>Detach audio from video clip</li>
                <li>Presets for most filters and Export - both supplied and user-created</li>
                <li>A playlist like a media player that also serves as a clip bin</li>
                <li>Custom and smart bins (folders) for media organization in the playlist view</li>
                <li>Sort playlist by name or creation/recording date</li>
                <li>Search the playlist</li>
                <li>Filter the playlist by video, audio, image, or other</li>
                <li>Drag-n-drop files from file manager to playlist</li>
                <li>Batch export from playlist</li>
                <li>Generate slideshow or montage from clips in playlist</li>
                <li>View playlist with details, thumbnails, or both</li>
                <li>Multi-select items in the playlist and timeline</li>
                <li>Grouping clips on the timeline</li>
                <li>Moving and nudging clips and groups on the timeline</li>
                <li>Split and rejoin clips on the timeline</li>
                <li>Align or synchronize clips based on their audio</li>
                <li>Create custom name for clips and enter comments about it</li>
                <li>Low resolution proxy editing to improve speed of seeking and eliminate or minimize scaling</li>
                <li>Timeline markers and ranges, including export from a range and exporting as text or embedded chapters</li>
                <li>A Notes panel to keep notes about your project or contain text to reaad for voiceover</li>
                <li>Flexibly insert and reorder tracks</li>
                <li>Edit Lottie and rawr JSON animations with [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/)
                    vector animation tool (included in our Shotcut downloads)</li>
                <li>Configurable time format: SMPTE timecode, time clock, or frame count</li>
                <li>An integrated file system browser with custom thumbnailer</li>
                <li>Search the current folder in the files view</li>
                <li>Filter the files view by video, audio, image, or other</li>
                <li>Roll an edit</li>
                <li>Bundled set of assets: Emojis, Sounds, Text, Transitions, Graphics</li>
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            <h3>Cross Platform &amp; Codec Independent</h3>
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            <li>Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux, and macOS)</li>
            <li>Codec independent so does not rely on system codecs</li>
            <li>Can run as a portable app from external drive</li>
            <li>UI translations: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,
                Finnish, French, French (Canada), Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese,
                Korean, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Polish, Portugese, Romanian,
                Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish,
                Ukranian (not all 100%, but you can
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            <li>Batch encoding with job control</li>
            <li>Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg</li>
            <li>Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source</li>
            <li>Video quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)</li>
            <li>Perform integrity check of an audio/video file</li>
            <li>View detailed information about an audio/video file</li>
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                <li>External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor</li>
                <li>External monitoring on an extra system display/monitor</li>
                <li>UI themes/skins: native-OS look and custom dark and light</li>
                <li>Control video zoom in the player: fit viewable area (default),
                    10%, 25%, 50%, original (100%), and 200%</li>
                <li>Flexible UI through dock-able panels</li>
                <li>Detailed media properties panel</li>
                <li>Recent files panel with search</li>
                <li>Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions</li>
                <li>Video scopes: Histogram, RGB Parade, RGB Waveform, Waveform, Vectorscope and Zoom</li>
                <li>Save and switch between multiple UI layouts</li>
                <li>On-screen grid and safe areas with snapping</li>
                <li>Low resolution preview (Preview Scaling) to improve speed of realtime effects</li>
                <li>Preview the Shotcut timeline as a background within Glaxnimate</li>
                <li>Quickly search for actions &amp; execute them</li>
                <li>Editable keyboard shortcuts</li>
                <li>Bitrate graph viewer</li>
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                <li>Hardware acceleration for encoding and decoding</li>
                <li>OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear
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                <li>Multi-core parallel image processing</li>
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