You are right @jonray.
That’s odd. And there are other small strange behaviors I noticed too. But I can’t reproduce them every time.
I also tried with other clip presets I made and the same problems occurs.
Anyways, it seams that it will work fine if the project have at least one clip on track V1. And the clip preset should be on a track above. The content of track V1 should also have at least the same duration as the clip preset.
I’ll do more tests this evening before I edit the Instructions.
Thanks for reporting it @jonray!
Yes, but it involves changing the parameters of pretty much all keyframes in all filters that have keyframes.
If you have a preferred video mode (like 3840 x 2160 30fps for example) I could make it for you if you want. Not before next week though. I won’t be at home very much in the next 6 or 7 days.
Simply select and Copy the clip in the timeline, open a text app (like Windows Notepad) paste the content and save the file.
@MusicalBox, have you tried the Glaxnimate program that was added in Shotcut in the recent beta release here?
It would be better to do these kinds of animation presets in Glaxnimate for use in Shotcut because the animations are scalable to any resolution. That means the image quality won’t degrade no matter how high you go in resolution. So you can just do them one time and not have to prepare new animations for other resolutions.
No, I didn’t get the new beta version. I did try Glaxnimate briefly though when it was proposed in the Resources category a while ago. Had to put it aside though since it didn’t work too well back then on my computer.
I’ll test it again when the next official version is released.
@DRM I installed the prerelease.
But for the moment I’m more interested by the Mask: Rotoscope filter.
I quickly made this:
Obviously I didn’t need Glaxnimate for such a simple mask. The Mask: Simple Shape would have worked for this. But it’s a start. Next step will be to draw a mask with the Bezier pen.
I realize that it is a relatively new app and that it will evolve and get better, but there are a few important things missing in this app at the moment.
Like an horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline for example.
Impossible to quickly scroll the timeline when it’s zoomed. And the Go to First/Last frame buttons don’t help either when zoomed.
@MusicalBox Unfortunately, it behaves well in the project, but once I export it, it’s lost prematurely and makes an unexpected transition!..
My conclusions so far are: The learning curve is somewhat steep compared to other editors. Implementing them takes longer than expected. It’s better to work with the basics. Thanks!
My conclusion is: This method is obsolete. It’s 3 years old and if I remember correctly, I used the Crop: Rectangle filter which is different now in recent versions of Shotcut.
I’ll take a note of this and I’ll try to come up with an updated version of that effect when I get back home this week-end.
I came up with this alternative that will work on recent Shotcut versions.
Still need to make versions for 720p and 4K projects.
Since editing the width of the banner is quite tedious, I’ll make sets for shorter lines of text. And I also have to make detailed instructions on how to customize the thing (colors, duration etc…)
Thank you!
The learning curve is somewhat steep compared to other editors.
Implementing them takes longer than expected.
It’s better to work with the basics.
