Libx264 vidoes rendering as unwatchable, black, mp4 files

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I’m trying to render a video using libx264 with a quality based vbr of 100%, but when my video is done rendering, the mp4 file just plays a black screen with the video not even progressing forward. Is there something wrong on my end that I’m doing? Or is it something else?

Thanks

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Have you tried unchecking “Use hardware encoder”?
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Make sure you’re using the latest version of Shotcut which can be downloaded here: https://shotcut.org/download/

If this doesn’t solve the issue, please read the following tutorial.

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I didn’t have hardware encoder checked/on

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This is your problem. Many players cannot accept files like this. Others such as Shotcut and PotPlayer can. Try at 95% instead.

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Thanks!

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