Export problem

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I agree with @Hudson555x. You are more than likely running out of memory. Not only is a single process (running .exe) limited to 3 GB RAM on 32-bit, which is very limiting for video editing, your entire system only has 3 GB RAM! Export in Shotcut runs in a background process. This means when export starts the operating system itself is taking some RAM, Shotcut UI is taking a fair amount of RAM to load itself plus your project, then the background export process (qmelt.exe) needs to load the same project and spend RAM. Ways to reduce RAM usage:

  1. Reboot
  2. Close all other applications
  3. Limit your project (Video Mode) resolution
  4. Export outside of Shotcut:
    1. start an export
    2. stop it
    3. right click export Job and view its XML
    4. save the XML
    5. close Shotcut
    6. run cmd.exe
    7. cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Shotcut
    8. qmelt \path\to\save\xml
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