Dumb question re exporting: where is Reload?

[ratushebarl]

Shotcut is great until export time…sorry to ask a dumb question but I do this so rarely that I never actually learn to do it.

The FAQ has this question: I have trimmed my video and/or created my project, now how do I save or share it?
The answer is

1. choose and click a Preset,
2. click Reload to load the current video settings, and
3. click Export File at the bottom of the panel.

I can do 1 and 3, but where’s Reload? I can’t find a button or menu option or anything with that name, and when I click Export File I always get mp4 which is not what my customer wants.

Help? Thanks.

[Steve_Ledger]

Never head of ‘Reload’… Where did you get this from?
Just chose a preset, chose a format [MP4] and then hit the ‘Export file’ button.

[ratushebarl]

https://shotcut.org/FAQ/#i-have-trimmed-my-video-andor-created-my-project-now-how-do-i-save-or-share-it

Maybe time to edit the faq?

OK…all right that works. I thought it wasn’t working because it doesn’t prefill the extension.

Thanks!

[rcooke]

Holy Cow! Still not fixed, was driving me crazy too!

Audio lag in exported movie

I don’t have a full grasp of whats happening. I “get” that the first reply is thinking that the source clips frame rate has to be “constant”, otherwise the video will shift/drift w.r.t. the audio. But that does not explain why, in my case, exporting for YouTube was fine. I’m still trying to figure this out. I posted that FAQ about how to export which says to press RELOAD first. I cant find that button, just RESET. RESET seems to blow away the preset, back to the project defaults. So now I…

[brian]

I fixed the FAQ. The change will appear the next time the web server is updated.

[shotcut]

“Reload” was referring to some old button. You do not need to click Reset before choosing a preset as choosing a preset inherently does that. And you definitely should not click Reset after choosing a preset (unless you want to undo the preset).