How do I make the project 1080p?

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@TheFantasticZ

So in the video mode I made it 640 x 360 to edit it easier,

There’s no reason to do that if you want to improve playback performance. I don’t know what version you are using but since about February of this year, Preview Scaling was introduced which does what you are trying to do by changing the video mode:

Preview Scaling

The Preview Scaling setting may be used to reduce the resolution of video processing when you are using a fair amount of filters, transitions, and track blending. This may help with the performance during the editing process. [image] However, keep in mind that the source video or images must typically be scaled down to the designed preview scale, and that will have a processing cost. See Proxy Editing for the remedy to that. Proxy generates substitute clips at the same resolution as preview sc…

Also, Proxy was introduced a few months back also which when combined with Preview Scaling can really improve playback issues when editing.

Proxy Editing

Introduction Proxy editing is the process of creating and using low resolution videos and images in places of the original or optimized (Convert to Edit-friendly) files. This provides the advantage that your computer has less work to do in realtime while editing: decoding, scaling, and effects. This is, quite simply, because there are less pixels to compute. Then, when you are ready to export, it will use the original (or optimized) files for full quality. Performance is optimal when the pre…

So always set the video mode to what you want to render it out as because when you decide to change modes during the project or after it can cause problems.

If you don’t have those options in your version of Shotcut then go to the “Download” page on top and grab the latest release.