Saved video only shows a black screen but audio still there

[laugh]

I saved my video as a MLT file but when I reopened it, it says that the original video is missing so it just shows a black screen while playing the audio, But I clearly still have the video in my folder

please help

[Hudson555x]

What you displayed is a missing file dialog box.
Shotcut doesn’t track the actual file if you move it.
Either put the missing file back in it’s original location or double click on that file location in that box and point to another location with that file.

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 …