I record videos for my podcast using Streamyard. When I open a video to edit in Shotcut it asks about converting it to an edit friendly version since it is a variable bitrate. I select yes and have done this many many times in the past no problem. Now when i do it, the conversion fails. I downloaded the newest version of Shotcut since I was using a slightly older one but the same thing still happens. I’m not sure what to do. Anybody have any suggestions?
That video is likely broken. You should look at the job log. Right-click the failed job and choose View Log.
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If the video is not broken, you could try converting it using cloudconvert or another website of choice.
Thank you.
Thank you for your response. I did look at the log before but I had trouble making sense of all the lines of what seemed to me very technical data. I’m afraid I don’t have the technical acumen to decipher what the log is “telling me”.
Also what does that mean the video is “broken”? It seems to play ok. Perhaps I should delete it and re-download it from Streamyard? Maybe it was corrupted during that step? What do you think? Again, thank you for your help.
You can paste the log here, and if you can play it in Shotcut you can try to use it directly without conversion. The conversion dialog is simply a warning and suggestion you can choose to ignore.
Thank you. I’ve considered just editing without converting it since it plays fine in Shotcut, but Ive heard stories of people who did that and spent a lot of time editing and once the video rendered, the video or audio was bad in the final product (out of sync/black screen/etc.). Just trying to avoid 3-4 hours wasted editing time.