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Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Improves the VA-API HEVC Hardware Encoder on Linux

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 28, 2026

Shotcut 26.9 is here almost two months after Shotcut 26.7 with new features like Automatic Ducking for audio, volume control, and an audio level meter/indicator for timeline track headers, and a new Adjustment Clip option in Timeline > Generate to create a dummy video clip to apply its filters to the composite of all video tracks below it.

This release also adds FFmpeg 9.0 support, application.triggerAction(name), multitrack.clipStart(), and timeline.split() functions for scripts, improves audio quality by removing a conversion to 16-bit integer and keeping the pipeline in 32-bit float, and improves the performance of the timeline for moving clips, zooming, and undo operations.

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