Are my laptop specs too low for Shotcut to run smoothly?

[Elusien]

@Austin gave a good description of how proxy and preview can work together to produce a good workflow here:

Difference Between Preview Scaling and Proxy?

Preview Scaling deserves more praise. An example project will make the differences between Proxy and Preview Scaling much easier to see. Assume that each project described below has one video clip on the timeline with one text filter attached to it. Scenario 1: Nothing fancy Source video is 1080p (no proxy) Timeline video mode is 4K Preview Scaling is off In this scenario, the video file is decoded at 1080p resolution, which is a fair amount of CPU effort. Then the video is scaled up to …