Input a video in its original size

Help/How To
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I am trying to input a Video into Shotcut, but it immediately gets resized, and I don’t know how to change that.

My example is the following: I have a video to which I set the resolution to 1696x1000 and I set the aspect ratio to exactly the same.

Now I want to add two videos side by side, the one is 696x696, the other is 1000x1000 (that’s why I chose the resolution this way). Now, whenever I add my 696x696 to the project, its resolution immediately gets changed to 700x700, and I don’t see why. This the of course means that I need to scale it down, and thus I lose quite some quality.

Is there any way, that my 696x696 video gets loaded into Shotcut as a 696x696, and not as a 700x700, so that basically every pixel gets taken over 1:1?

Thanks for the help!

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Your description is a little confusing. You say you have a video at 1696x1000, but you never mention loading it. Are you really saying you made a custom Video Mode?

700x700

How do you know this? What you looking at?

The solution is rather simple (and obvious since you will must position each video within the frame space):

  1. make a custom video mode 1696x1000
  2. add both both videos, one each to their own video track on the timeline
  3. add the Size, Position & Rotate filter to each clip or track and adjust Size: one to 696x696 and the other to 1000x1000
  4. change the Position values of each filter to position them side-by-side