100% quality exports nothing?

[Ciaran_Zagami]

I want to export a video with absolutely NO quality drop from the original.
All I want to do is shorten the footage by a few seconds. No quality change. Nothing.

But when I set the quality to 100% it just exports a file with no visuals or audio.

[Austin]

Try this instead:

Extract Sub-clip

Shotcut can not “pass through” or copy codecs without re-encoding. The closest thing available to that is Properties > menu > Extract sub-clip, which uses the in and out points of a trimmed clip. [image] Extract sub-clip will find the key frame closest to the in/out points and copy the codecs into a new container without re-encoding. Any filters applied to the clip will not be applied to the sub-clip because that would require re-encoding. This feature has some limitations and may not always…