Crowdsourcing: Which Laptop is Best for Using Shotcut?

[Elusien]

Yes, Mesa is a software implementation that, unlike OpenGL and DirectX, does not use the graphics hardware. I advised a user whose laptop continually stuttered using Shotcut with Mesa to use OpenGL/DirectX and that solved his problem - see here:

Shotcut not working on new asus tuf DASH f15

If there were no untoward messages when you ran GLViewer and the output related to your Nvidia graphics card looked OK then your driver probably isn’t the problem. These messages show that you have set the “Display Mode” to “Software (Mesa)”, which is “bundled with” Shotcut and which is a software implementation (not hardware) and as such low-performant, which is probably why you are getting such bad stuttering. With Windows you should really use “Diaplay Mode” = “ANGLE”, or “Automatic”, your…