Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
Shotcut 26.4.30 has been released with improvements to the timeline interface, including symmetric transition resizing and enhanced zoom functionality. The update introduces Vulkan acceleration for Whisper.cpp, enabling faster speech-to-text processing using AI. Additional features include new 10-bit VP9 export presets for MP4 and WebM formats, with support across Windows and Linux platforms.
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Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text Written by Michael Larabel in Multimedia on 30 April 2026 at 05:29 PM EDT. Add A Comment Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor. Following Shotcut's 26.1 release where hardware decoding was enabled by default and other improvements and then Shotcut 26.2 with more refinements, Shotcut 26.4 brings more nice enhancements for this one of the best open-source video editor apps. Shotcut's timeline has been enhanced with symmetric resizing of a timeline transition, drag-and-drop from the "recent" area to the timeline, improved timeline zoom, and reduced memory usage when dealing with timeline waveforms.
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