The difference is made by the tools that are implemented by default and that let users to do more than just simple editing. The Shotcut video editor works pretty much like any other, meaning that you drop the video file and you get some basic editing functions out of the box.

Some more specific dependencies might be required, like SDL, libexif, and JACK, but it varies from one distribution to another and users will need to check this if the application refuses to start. No installation is necessary and all the major dependencies are present in the folders. Users can just extract the files from the provided archive and run the application. The developers provide a source package for whomever is interested in compiling the software, but it's also available in binary form. It's also capable of exporting video files with various extension and everything is made possible by using the FFmpeg media framework.

Shotcut is a video editor that has a lot of very useful functions and is able to handle a large number of video formats.

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