Hi there
I don’t know how many of you are using Linux.
I decided to give it a try and finally installed the current Linux Mint, which is quite easy to handle (as opposed to openSUSE which I tried before).
However, after installing Shotcut the program kept crashing whenever I wanted to insert multiple clips at once, and the creation of proxy file returned an error.
For me, the remedy was installing the ffmpeg package, and now everything works fine.
Whoever will find this helpful.
Most Shotcut users will be better off not using the distro package. We do not make, test, or support the distro packages. There are too many of them, each with their own tools and processes, and there is less control over dependencies. Like your case: the ffmpeg libraries are a hard build-time dependency and those got installed, but there are several functions that run ffmpeg and its companion ffprobe that are practically hard runtime dependencies that get overlooked. And for some features you need a build of ffmpeg that includes VMAF, which is uncommon. Another thing runs gopro2gpx: a utility that was abandoned, and I resurrected and updated for models from the past 6 years. But that is not in many distros and where it is, not my fork.
@shotcut has already given you a good answer.
To add to that, I use the AppImage packages. I have never had any problems and you can run multiple versions very easily, so upgrading is risk free.
Just to be sure:
Is that right?
Hi, I use Shotcut on Linux Mint since 2 years. First, I tried the distro package of Shotcut, then the Flatpak one, beaucoup the Qt version is always the last. But the FlatPak is louder on disk, so I compiled my own Qt6.11.0 and Shotcut with the source (@shotcut By the way, I improved the build-shotcut.sh script, I’ll have to share it here). I can share you every thing (doc, git, package depencies) to do it yourself if you want.
Sef., France