I have been using Shotcut for a few months now and I just love the control it gives me without being dependent on a commercial enterprise.
My question is that I have two separate projects (so two separate mlt files) and I would like to concatenate the clips from one to the clips from the second and create a single mlt file for further editing. Is there any way of doing this please?
Thanks Bill
Load your first project, whatever mlt file you want to play first, then go to file > Open MLT XML as clip, and navigate to and select your second project file, and it will load the project in the source player. You can then add this to the timeline and continue working from there.
However this will remove the ability to edit existing filters/transitions and such on the second project, since itâs reading it as a clip and not a whole project. You can still add new effects to it, but canât change the ones loaded with it.
At the first step âload 1st projectâ, I would add âsave it as a new projectâ.
Or using mtl copies done before starting.
Just in case it mess up and crashes all the work done !
@Keno40 Yes, that is a good idea to keep backups of important project files. 
Thank you for your help, lauren and Keno40. The âinsert as a clipâ will solve some of my problems, but doesnât give me quite what I am looking for. Perhaps an example will help.
I have videos of a number of my daughterâs soccer (football outside the US) matches. I have a separate project for each match that I have already edited in Shotcut to contain the clips of her I need. For a new video I am putting together for her scholarship application, I now need to get all clips into one project and do a NLE to group all the passes together, all the shots together, all the tackles together etc. I would also like to further trim a number of the clips and remove others entirely.
I donât think thereâs a way to do what I want in Shotcut at present and maybe no one else has a need for this feature. I have written some python scripts in the past to modify the mlt files and I suspect I may need to do this again here.
Perhaps melt is able to help, but I guess this is the wrong forum for such a question.
I think this is still a valid topic as i couldnât find any changes to mlt XML usage.
Iâm having the same situation with my worldtrip video and all the countries as sub-projects.
My biggest challenge here is to overlap the audio clips of two concatenated video projects as i first syncd all my cuts to the beat of the music.
Maybe there is a way to modify the xml tree inside the mlt to insert multiple tractors from single mlt files into one big project, allowing to edit the single clips and their filters again.
Or maybe there is a way to get all clips from a projects timeline (with their start/end point an filters) appended into another projects playlistâŚ
Does someone know an easy way to do that?
Use the concatenate feature on ffmpeg to combine and save as one full video then bring into Shotcut to further trim.
I am having the same issue. On one hand, I have a mlt file I use as a âtemplateâ for my videos which includes an intro, and a strip shape with some text and animation filters on it (which is spread on 4 video tracks). On the other hand, I have some almost-finalised mlt projects on which I would like to add the intro and the animated strip from the template mlt file and still be able to edit the tracks and the filters to change the text and the shape of the animation. I would like to merge the two mlt files but I donât want to loose the ability to edit the filters.
How could this be possible?
Thank you.
Copy and Paste
Open the template, select all, copy, open the âalmost-finalised mlt projectâ, position the play head, and paste. There is no possibility to embed a template plus customizationâespecially one where you can edit the template and get those changes reflected in the host project along with the customization.