I’m running Shotcut 25.03.15 in Kubuntu 25.10. I have a 100x100 transparent png file that is definitely 100x100. When I first try to open it up in Shotcut it certainly seems like Shotcut knows this:
In the preview window it is, at 100% zoom, for some reason freakishly large.
And it’s the same when I drag it to the timeline:
Obviously I can workaround this by applying a resize filter but… why is Shotcut doing this? And is there a way to prevent it?
Because I chose to make it that way, and there is no way to change it, and I am not going to change it soon. Most of the time I am including photos, and I want them to automatically scale to the video project resolution.
Add the Size, Position & Rotate filter, change the mode from Fill to Fit. Now, if the rectangle is larger than the image, it is not scaled up to fill the rectangle.
Ahh… it didn’t click until you said that but retroactively yeah, this has been a source of mild frustration for a while. I size my photos correctly outside the program so this just creates more work for me. I won’t hold my breath about it or anything but it’d be nice if there was an option to auto-scale or not when you’re importing the file. Keep it defaulted to on if you want, but that would probably be the best of all worlds.
While doing so, In your image editor you can place them on a transparent canvas at video size.
Huh? I don’t always know where I want it when I make it. Plus the same asset often has to go in multiple projects and in multiple resolutions. I’ll just keep using the the filter workaround.
