I’m editing let’s plays, and i prefer to do my editing in large groups of let’s plays. a problem that i’ve found is that it takes ten minutes to export a video, and i’m scared to start editing the next one before it finishes because i don’t know if it will mess up the exporting one. does anybody know?
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Try it and come back with a report…
Yes, I do it quite frequently however… Without SSD drives and plenty of CPU power, playback and responsiveness is slower. A suitable workaround with enough RAM is to create a TMPFS drive, mount it and copy your video to it before opening. This bypasses bottlenecks for HDDs.
thanks to both of you. i will try. i do not have an ssd, but i am upgrading to 12gb ram very soon (possibly today).
This is one of the joys of Shotcut - while I am exporting from one project I can simply open another instance of Shotcut and start work on another project. Love it!
-=Ken=-
i’ve had success when exporting by going to file and starting a new project while the project i am exporting renders safely…i do a goodly amount of let’s plays myself and am constantly editing. shotcut also allows for multiple instances to be open…i’ve had success going that route also.
So when you Export a video, the instance of the Timeline is saved internally and only that instance is exported, right? Because if it only exports what is in the Timeline in real-time, then editing videos (in the same project) would screw up the current export. Anyway, I’ll test it and let you all know.
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Alright it works! My former explanation (Shotcut saves that Timeline instance internally) is true. Good on you, Shotcut!
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