Hi, I’m a newbie with a similar question, so reviving this old thread.
I’m doing simple editing jobs, cutting 90-minute recordings into bite-sized pieces of 10-15 minutes each. One track for video, maybe one track for overlaid stills. I don’t know the best way to export the pieces as separate files. Each piece consists of several clips, so it’s not as simple as exporting a clip. I need to use the timeline.
In Premiere Elements, I can keep all five or so segments on a single track in the timeline, then use a slider to select which part of the timeline I want to export. Easy, but Shotcut doesn’t have that feature. I see there is the ability to render the Playlist as separate video files, but when I mute all but one track, move timeline to source, and then source to playlist, I get the error “cannot add a project to itself.”
So I end up putting all my multi-clip segments on separate tracks. Then mute all but the longest, export the timeline, delete that track, repeat with the next longest, etc. This is very cumbersome and I’m sure there must be a simpler way.
What am I missing?