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When comparing Shotcut vs Pitivi, the Slant community recommends Shotcut for most people. In the question“What is the best free video editing software?” Shotcut is ranked 2nd while Pitivi is ranked 11th.
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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac
TechnologyC++, Qt
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Pros
Pro Free and open-source
Pro Advanced features
The advanced features have a learning curve, but the Shotcut YouTube channel has a collection of video tutorials to help.
Pro Free and open source
Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.
Pro GTK based
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
Pro Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
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Con Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con No way to modify the speed of a clip
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con Lacks proxy editing
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.