My sincere thanks to you all for taking the trouble to clarify all this for me…I really appreciate it.
I am not one of those people obsessed with numbers.
Most of the classical concerts I am watching/listening to are 1080p and around 24bit 4800 1300kbps lossless .flaC and I was simply trying to match the output with the input in order to preserve the original values because that made sense to me, based on all the usual guidelines regarding settings.
I am happy to accept your asurances that the different bitrates in the input to and the export from shotgut makes no meaningful difference.
I agree that it is my listening experience that ultimately matters and that I am unlikely to ever notice any appreciable difference between the the original 1300 and shotcut’s exported 566 bitrates.
And I wish to express again my appreciation to the developers and support team that shotcut has provided software that enables me to achieve the quality that I can.
So thanks again.
Cheers
Scott
Ps. And thanks for the advice about the 24bit setting, which I will enable…even if this too will make no appreciable difference.