NovaCut
by Alex Weström
CapCut-style video editor with a multi-track timeline and plugin marketplace
About
NovaCut is a video editor for Linux desktops: the fast, touch-friendly workflow of a mobile editor, with a real multi-track timeline underneath. It runs natively on Wayland and keeps the preview live while you cut. What it does: - Magnetic timeline with separate lanes for main video, overlays, text, adjustment layers and audio - Trim handles, razor cut (S or Ctrl+B), snapping (N) and timeline zoom - Live preview canvas with 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 project presets - Text and typography layers with fonts, colours, outlines and shadows - Speed ramping, audio waveforms, and a canvas-based smart cutout that needs no model or network access - 50 transitions and 50 effects, including cinema LUTs - A plugin marketplace with declarative manifest.json filters, four presets included (Cyberpunk Neon, 80s Retro VHS, Cinematic Golden Hour, Film Noir) and an in-app filter creator - Hardware-accelerated decode for preview (VA-API) Probing, preview and export use the ffmpeg and ffprobe that ship with the freedesktop runtime, and the export dialog offers what that build supports. Speech-to-text captions are not available in this package: they need a whisper.cpp build and a Whisper model, and neither is in the project repository yet. Projects, downloaded plugins and fonts are kept in the application's own data directory. The app reaches the network only for marketplace plugins and stock media the user asks for, and it sends no telemetry.
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - network
--share=network - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos - access to your music folder
--filesystem=xdg-music - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures - access to your desktop folder
--filesystem=xdg-desktop - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download - sets environment variable XCURSOR_PATH
--env=XCURSOR_PATH=/run/host/user-share/icons:/run/host/share/icons
Who publishes this
Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.
- packaged by github.com/outcrop-labs, not by the io.github namespace owner; it does build the owner's code from https://github.com/alexwest1981/NovaCut
publisher:namespace - repository is 11 day(s) old with 3 star(s): no track record yet
publisher:new-repo
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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