Can "projects" be easily moved from laptop to a desktop

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It all depends on how you store your files.
Shotcut doesn’t move any files you use, and depending on how you store your media files will determine how Shotcut will save your project with either absolute or relative file paths in the project’s MLT file.

You can read more about that here:

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put a…