How to use Shotcut and GIMP together?

[Elusien]

There is a useful “Handwriting” technique explained by @jonray here:

New tutorial on Youtube - handwritten or "write-on" text created with Shotcut and GIMP

Back in November 2018 I made a video tutorial showing how to create “write -on” or “revealing handwritten” text using Shotcut in conjunction with GIMP. After making this tutorial I kind of got distracted with a few other things, so I never got round to posting it on Youtube. However, #samth’s discussion about making animated text with SVGs: https://forum.shotcut.org/t/html-css3-animations-now-possible-in-shotcut/12053/52 has rekindled my interest in it, so yesterday I popped it onto Youtube…