How to Reduce Preview Lag?

[Keno40]

It can apply.
What he just point, is using “compressed” and lighter versions of your clips to edit and just switch at the moment you want to import.

How to "proxy" edit with Shotcut

I meant that even though I explained it unclearly. Like this right (pardon my Ascii): [video projects folder] - [my project] - - proj.mlt - - [folder1] - - - video_a.mts (640x360, low q) - - - video_b.mts (640x360, low q) - - [folder2] - - - video_a.mts (1920x1080, hi q) - - - video_b.mts (1920x1080, hi q) I find this to be cleaner. I wasn’t sure how Shotcut would like that though, and what difficulties it might bring to the table. Stuff like xml files depending on a certain width and height …

or that Proxy files - different approach from my workflow with GoPro footage