Documentation? (Topic must be at least 15 characters)

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I just installed Shotcut. I have to say I’m totally lost. I tried to cut ads out from a recording and gave up. Shotcut is not intuitive, not for me at least. I cannot find any documentation. Just a page which directs to youtube and requires javascript. No javascript here.
Question. Where is the documentation hidden? I was hoping there is at least a man page - nope. How can I learn the basic usage like cutting and saving?

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The documentation is not hidden. There are no man pages.
There are plenty of tutorials. You can begin here.
https://shotcut.org/tutorials/

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Thanks for reply.
You point me to a web page with lots of dead links that require javascript. No javascript here. Didn’t I say it already? How can a video substitute for a manual anyway? Are those videos scrolling manual pages or what?

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Hi Segfault,

I suggest you type “Shotcut Mr. Eko” into the Youtube search.There are some really useful video tutorials done my a guy called Mr. Eko. For example this one:


I found this one and his others very helpful when I was a beginner.

I really really disagree. Having tried other video editors, I was amazed at the intuitiveness of Shotcut from the word go.

Hope you have some success! Good luck.

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Thanks everybody. I gave up. I tried to export a loaded file and it errors out with message: failed to open output.mkv. Obviously, output.mkv was the filename I wanted to export into. Isn’t Shotcut supposed to create the file? Resorting to ffmpeg CLI, at least it has meaningful error messages and it has a comprehensive man page.