New here. What is a filter? Why don't I have any?

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Hi. I’m new here. When I click Filters I get a black window with no features at all.

This doesn’t seem right.

John

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Hi. When you click Filters you should see a + button somewhere on the black window. When you click that button you will see a bunch of different filters you can apply to your video. Keep in mind that you have to have a video/audio clip selected to be able to apply filters. Hope this helped.

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You should start here : https://shotcut.org/tutorials/
And here : https://shotcut.org/howtos/getting-started/

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There should be a + button somewhere on the black window. There is not. There is no text. There is no links,. There is no cucsor entry field. There is only black.

I checked the tutorials. When the guy clicks ‘Filters’ he gets a window with links. I get only a black window. Black, Black ,only Black. Nothing but black. All black., Nothing at all. Just black.

I think I got a bad download installation.

John

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Is it windows XP ?
I bet you have a 32 bits computer. Did you install the good version?

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Hi and thanks. I am running win7 on a 64 bit computer. I downloaded a 64 bit version from I don’t remember where. I am thinking ‘bad download’ too. Can you suggest a good download? I’ll try again.

John

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Filters list window is empty until you click the + sign [to add a filter]

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Yes but I don’t understand why the window (that could be incorporated in the prog but should work anyway) is black.

I thought it could be a GTK issue…

@jbalms you took it from official website right ?
https://shotcut.org/download/

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I uninstalled and re installed from the link you gave me. Still black and blank.

John

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Oh wow! I just dragged a file into the filter window and got a +. Clicked it and got some filters. Now I will have a lot to learn.

John