How to Use Shotcut Video Editor - Free Video Editor

How to Use Shotcut Video Editor - Free Video Editor

Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor.
It's available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Shotcut

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Here is the step-by-step guide on creating and editing your first project with Shotcut.

Step 1: Start a new project
After launching Shotcut for the first time, you’ll see a new project and a recent project panel in the center of the page.
You can create a project here or choose the one you’ve already created previously.

Step 2: Import Media
You can simply drag and drop video files, images, or music files into the clip preview panel on the left.

Step 3: Understand the interface
It’s always a good idea to understand the interface of any software you are learning. Shotcut is pretty straightforward with a media panel, viewer, and timeline taking up nearly all the space on the page.

Step 4: Assemble your video
The best way to assemble an edit is to watch your clips, use I for in point and O for outpoint to select the best parts of the clip, and drag it down to the timeline.

Step 5: Edit video clips
You can easily change the duration, order, and timing of any clip in the timeline. You can do this by grabbing and moving the clip or splitting the clip into two clips.

Step 6: Adding music
Before adding music, make sure you add an audio track to your timeline dedicated to music.

Step 7: creating transitions/effect
If you overlap two clips, it automatically creates a transition. You can change the transition type by choosing the properties panel.

Step 8: Color Correction
You can add color correction by using the color filter.

Step 9: Adding text
Text is also a filter. You can choose between simple text or rich text filters.

Step 10: Exporting
The best general export setting is the YouTube preset or any of the H264 compression presets. Choose a final destination for your edit and press export.

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[ampedupelectronics]

I'm an electronics technician and this video so helpful when you don't know around a foreign software area. Thanks for your expertise.

[farris]

this has been more helpful in helping me understand Shotcut than any other video i've found. Thank you so much. One thing i wish you could go over is how to edit down a longer video into a shorter one to make like a highlight reel using different sections of the long video. That being said i am getting an idea of how to do that myself. Again thank you.

[grey]

Very impressed with this tutorial. Ive watched over 50 different ones and this I find is the best. Takes it reasonably slow.Great!!

[kimbalwarren]

Thank you for slowly explaining and being
clear and precise, and not jumping around with the Arrow.

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[bharathkumar]

I'm starting my video journey just now and this has been a very useful video.

I like the fact that you didnt downplay this software comparing against best ones, but just explained the limitations in a nice way so that beginners can understand


It was well paced and well done.

Thanks.

[NomadFlow]

About text, if you click up on top where it says open other there is a color option and a text option. Clicking on text then opens up a transparent clip with the simple text filter already applied. That way you can use it as its own separate clip that you can put on a separate layer like you would in other video editors. Another thing to point out that's important is that Shotcut has features to take care of preview lag. In settings there is something called preview scaling. It helps the processing of the video filters and when overlaying clips on top of one another so that the lag is eliminated or at least reduced. The second feature to take care of lag is right under it in settings and that's proxy. They can both be combined if there is really bad lag going which should reduce lag from all angles.

[Stevethesearcher]

Excellent tutorial. He explains things well without assuming prior knowledge.

[adrianwild]

Well done, for someone with limited experience this is an essential video .Recommended for every beginner .

[MohammadShehzad]

Indeed a very lucid way of teaching and building capacity of beginners.

[NelehLove]

Omg thank you so much. I am currently learning editing with shotcut for my channel and... phew, was it complicated. I went from not knowing much about editing at all to understanding this tool enough to try making a decent video tomorrow. We will see. Thanks!

[FOES-YT]

This Is a great tutorial, you explained things In detail yet It was easy to follow, going from the PS5 built In editor to this will allow me to make better videos thanks! :)

[TheBlueThird]

I've been wanting to learn shotcut but time is something I don't have. I currently use Kdenlive. But I'll put it on the 2021 bucket list. Thanks!

[MrBecker]

Been using shotcut for a few years & does a great job... light compared to the fat premier

[dchungmanson]

Thank you so much for your detailed tuition with the right tempo . Your layout and sequence are perfect

[yulwz]

The Best Shotcut Video Editor Tutorial !

[ruibelo]

Thank you so much for your excellent, very easy to follow, instructional video!

[gordont]

Many thanks for your time and knowledge you kindly Much appreciated

[dmauleon]

Awesome teacher! I love the way you explain it!

[balkrishnarana]

Very grateful for the best ever video editing hands on tutorial. Thank you.