Project settings

[Jojo58]

Hi there, I am using Shotcut onky for a few days, and I really like it. Just one question, I think it is important not to waste time with wrong settings. Shotcut will define the video and audio settings matching with the first clip I open? This means, when I import all my clips from my camcorder ( 1080 p or what ever) the settings automatically will be correct for editing and exporting as well? Normally I don’t need to change any setting? Just import the clips and that’s it. Thanks for your patience, but I already have tried out other programmes and the settings issue often was a mess…

[shotcut]

Basically, the answer to your questions are “yes.” You can read more here

Video Mode

Introduction Video Mode is the project resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, and color space. It is important to set this as you desire at the beginning of your project. If you try to change it later Shotcut will try to retain the timing of edits, but some users have reported problems, and it is risky. Also, at this time Shotcut will not automatically adjust anything for you related to size and positioning of elements like text and picture-in-picture when changing resolution. You can think of…

[Tmc]

Just for clarification. Should you select the settings based upon source footage or the desired output?

[Austin]

The desired output. These settings are effectively the output format of the timeline.