4K editing with shotcut

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After a few tries in FHD resolution that shotcut managed flawlessly, decided to give a try to 4K, as my camera allows it (DJI Osmo action 4).

Even though it was slower during import/export phases, i was surprise to not notice any slowdown or glitch during editing, everything going pretty smoothly and was as easy as a standard 1080p movie.

see here:

Once again i want to renew my thanks to the team for bringing us such a powerfool tool.

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Hi Effel,

Could you please share with us your video editing workstation’s hardware? CPU, RAM, GPU and storage?
How many video and audio tracks were used in the project?
Thank you,
J.

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my editing station is an Altyk 14" laptop (french brand, chinese made)

  • CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-1235U 1.30 GHz
  • RAM: 16Go
  • GPU: embedded intel Iris Xe
  • Storage: SSD NVMe 960 Go
  • external screen: Philips Brilliance 241B
  • OS: windows 11 family 23H2

how many video tracks: 2 (1 made of the 49 clips + 1 for titles)
how many audio tracks: 0 (only using audio embedded into video clips)
see project screenshot:

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if that helps.

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Hi Effel.

Thank you for your reply.
That helps to give me an idea…
I use much more tracks and I run Shorcut on Linux Mint.
I would like to have more performance out of my workstation… Not sure if I should try to use GPU for encoding…

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i haven’t measure it, but enabling H/W encoding did improved export speed on my system.
you can also work with proxy files instead of full resolution ones.

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4K editing with Shotcut is no problem since years. You even don’t need a very good GPU card. If you have 16 cpu cores you get very good rendering time.

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Thanks for sharing… Only 12 CPU cores here… But that hint gives me another pathway…