Export fails everytime

[roza277]

Hello. So, since yesterday if i try to export a video it immediately fails. First i suspected it started seeing it as malware or something cause before it all happened i got a weird notification after trying to export a video, something about melt.exe or similar. But i set avast to approve those so now idk… I guess it could be a memory problem but it worked fine before and I uninstalled a lot of stuff. I have a bad laptop for now but like i said, it worked before so not sure what changed. here’s the job log:

[libx264 @ 0000000002eef980] using SAR=1/1

[libx264 @ 0000000002eef980] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX

[libx264 @ 0000000002eef980] profile High, level 4.0, 4:2:0, 8-bit

[libx264 @ 0000000002eef980] 264 - core 164 r3094M bfc87b7 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2022 - x264, the best H.264/AVC encoder - VideoLAN - options: cabac=1 ref=2 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=6 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=6 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=2 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1 b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=1 keyint=15 keyint_min=1 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=15 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

[consumer avformat] Could not open ‘C:/Users/HP/Desktop/please work/PLEASE.mp4’

[aac @ 0000000002ef2bc0] Qavg: nan

[h264 @ 0000000002ef2fc0] Reinit context to 1920x1088, pix_fmt: yuv420p

[h264 @ 00000000082b3700] Reinit context to 1920x1088, pix_fmt: yuv420p

[h264 @ 00000000084ca040] Reinit context to 1920x1088, pix_fmt: yuv420p

[producer avformat] audio: total_streams 1 max_stream 1 total_channels 6 max_channels 6

[AVIOContext @ 000000000069f7c0] Statistics: 1815284 bytes read, 0 seeks

[chain avformat-novalidate] C:/Users/HP/Downloads/poi/season 5/Person of Interest s05e06 A More Perfect Union.mp4

checking VFR: pkt.duration 1001

[filter swresample] 6(5.1) f32le 48000Hz → 2(stereo) f32le 48000Hz

[h264 @ 0000000002ef2f40] Reinit context to 1920x1088, pix_fmt: yuv420p

Failed with exit code 1

I’d really appreciate any help

[Austin]

@roza277

[consumer avformat] Could not open ‘C:/Users/HP/Desktop/please work/PLEASE.mp4’

Shotcut cannot write to that file. This is often due to Windows Protected Folders:

Export fails with "[consumer avformat] Could not open"

Thank you for replying with that excellent workaround! https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046851/windows-10-allow-blocked-app-windows-security And from Protect important folders with controlled folder access on microsoft.com: Protected folders are specified when controlled folder access is configured. Typically, commonly used folders, such as those used for documents, pictures, downloads, and so on, are included in the list of controlled folders.