Moving shotcut project file to another computer!

[shsawmyint]

Dear all,
How are you? I hope you are doing well.
I have a question.
I am working on a project and half done. I want to work on half done project with another computer.
Is there any way? If yes, how can i do that?

Thank you.

[Hudson555x]

You are going to have to transfer all of your source files and the Shotcut project file.

Unless you place files in exact folders of where they are at now, when you open your project it will have you repair the project by selecting where the source files are at.

Read this post to understand more how Shotcut works with project files.

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put a…

[jonray]

Hi @shsawmyint - first, welcome.
Just to add that I do this often, transferring from my desktop to my laptop.
To do it easily, I just make sure my project folder (the folder with all files used by SC) is on my desktop (filepath in my case is C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\xxxx , in general it’s C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\xxxx). (Windows).

So as long as your username is the same for both computers you will have no problem, but place ALL files for the project in that folder.