I checked it out as well on my Windows system with 16 logical CPUs and 64 GB RAM. This project and its export requires a fair amount of memory due to its resolution, 9 tracks, and export with parallel processing and software encoder. See
Virtual memory usage is not real memory usage, and it does not need that much. In my test, I left the export interpolation at bilinear to make it go faster and hyper/lanczos does not use more memory but slower. By the time export reached
| % | shotcut.exe | melt.exe |
|---|---|---|
| 2% | 2.9 GB | 5 GB |
| 5% | 2.8 | 5.1 |
| 10% | 2.8 | 5.1 |
| clicked each track and clip to view filters… | ||
| 21% | 3.2 | 5.15 |
| 30% | 3.2 | 5.3 |