Preventing clip resizing upon importing

Help/How To
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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?

Option to import clips at their native size
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There is not way to do that automatically. It is a very uncommon request. For most users, the process is:

  1. Select a video mode that they want for their final project (resolution, frame rate, etc)
  2. As clips are imported, the clips are automatically sized and timed to match the Video Mode.

If you want the clips to appear at a size that does not match the Video Mode, then the SPR filter is the best way to do that.