Converting to edit friendly video options and differences

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@Kaje68

Also, is there a way to convert multiple files?

No. There was a discussion on this here:

Batch Convert to Edit-Friendly?

Hello, Long time Shotcut user, first post on the forum. Up until now, I have been able to look up all of my questions and find the answers I needed but I’m not able to find a specific answer for batch converting multiple files to edit-friendly. All of my clips are variable frame rate and must be converted to “edit-friendly” before I start each project. Currently, I pull each clip in to Shotcut, one at a time, which prompts me to convert. This can be very time consuming as some projects contain…

Also, see here for some useful advice:

Using conversion to edit-friendly AND proxy

Got it. Thanks a lot for the clarification @daniel47! So this leads to the following workflow if I want to work with proxies of VFR files a. turn Proxy OFF (manual) b. add VFR file and pull to timeline b. confirm prompt to “convert to edit-friendly” (manual) c. toggle Proxy on (manual) d. have proxy files created (automatic) e. reopen project to refresh display of clips use in timeline being replaced by their proxies (manual) d. start editing I usually have Proxy ON and enjoy the automa…