Based on this comment I tried this again.
I did get acceptable, good results.
My .jpg images are 3456 x 2304.
I have 1800 images to import.
I’m running a Microsoft Surface Pro 4
ShotCut version 18.01.02
Test 1:
I started a new session of Shotcut.
Selected “Open File”
Selected 40 (sequencal) images and clicked “open”.
40 photos took 4 minutes 50 seconds.
I killed the process as it was way too slow, but did not crash.
Test 2:
I started a new session of Shotcut.
Selected “Open File”
Selected 1 images and clicked “open”.
Selected “Properties” and clicked the “Image Sequence”
It imported 900 images in 6 seconds.
I then selected “Export” and selected MPEG-4
It took 20 minutes to export.
The mp4 file was 8.7 Mbyte
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I then closed Shotcut.
Re-opened Shotcut.
Imported the newly createrd mp4 video file
And… it played (900 images) in 33 seconds.
The video quality was excellent. Crystal clear.
I’m quite happy with the process
I uploaded it to youtube, that took about 3 minutes.
It took youtube about 45 seconds to process it.
I played the video on youtube (play time was 33 seconds).
Video quality was much lower, a grainy appearance.
It was acceptable, but much lower quality than when I played it on ShotCut.
I’m ok with the video, but it’s not the quality I was hoping for.
Which begs the question - how do you get a good quality video loaded onto Youtube and retain the high quality?
Test 3:
I did the same as Test 2 but during “export” I selected HDV1080.25p.
It took 22 minutes to export.
The .m2t file was 111.493 Mbyte
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I then closed Shotcut.
Re-opened Shotcut.
Imported the newly createrd .m2t video file.
And… it played (900 images) in 33 seconds.
The video quality was excellent. Crystal clear.
I uploaded it to youtube, that took about 30 minutes. (this file is 14x larger than the previous).
It took youtube about 45 seconds to process it.
I played the video on youtube (play time was 33 seconds).
Video quality was much lower, a grainy appearance.
It was acceptable, but much lower quality than when I played it on ShotCut.
I’m ok with the video, but it’s not the quality I was hoping for.
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This was a test just to see what would happen with 900 .jpg images.
Here’s a link to this video.
I’m very new to shotcut and video editing. I think I know the difference between Kodak and a Codec… well heck, what is a Codec come to think of it?
I like the product. I’m’ strill trying to learn the tool.
I tried using AVSVideo Editor several months ago and I liked the product but the output videos were always very low quality no matter what I did so I gave up on it. There was virtually no support.