Option to import clips at their native size

[brian]

Related to your previous request:

Preventing clip resizing upon importing

Whenever I import clips to the timeline, they are added at higher dimensions than their recorded resolution. Shotcut makes them fill the canvas (e.g. stretched to 1080 if that is the project resolution) instead of leaving them as they are, and I have to fix it for every clip by adding a size filter and changing it back. Is there a way to have Shotcut respect a video’s native resolution when added to a project?

I think this will be an unpopular suggestion. But I am interested to hear what the community says.

Can you expand further on how this would work so we can understand your use case better?

For example, if the Video Mode is set to 1920x1080, and you import a video that is 1280x720, you are saying that you want the imported video to NOT fill the screen. So how should it appear? Should it be centered with a black border all around it? Or maybe it should be in the upper left with black bars on the right and bottom to fill the rest of the space?