Hi… newbie here. I have two clips for a two talking head podcast.
One is the male speaker, and the other is the female.
they are portrait 9x16 and I want to split the screen down the middle top to bottom, i.e. man on left, girl on right.
I load extra clip to timeline… the audio plays both… correctly.
I just don’t know how to use filters.grid etc. I cannot find size/position command
Can someone walk me through the procedure to set up the screen?
I was using SW that did it for me but I hope shotcut can make it easy.
Thanks
Hi @solosailor
Size/Position is not a command, it’s a filter. In the Filters panel.
Drag your 2 videos on 2 different tracks and apply a Size, Position & Rotate filter to each one. Then resize and position both clips as you want.
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It looks like the scrolling bar is missing on the right side of your filters list
Did you download Shotcut from the official Shotcut website?
I use the magnet icon and select a clip, find the size, click to set left/right but it does now apply
Sorry… does NOT apply
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In the Size, Position & Rotate filter, the Horizontal fit (Left, Center, Right) and Vertical fit (Top, Middle, Bottom) parameters are used to set the rotation point of the clip. Not to align the clip on the screen.
To move your clip, use the moving handle in the Preview, or set them manually in the filter panel, like shown in my previous video.
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From the captures you provided, your seem to use a portrait mode (9:16) on your project.
You won’t be able to display two 9:16 clips side by side on the screen, unless you crop them or reduce their size a lot (which will create black bars).
Before importing your clips in Shotcut, go to Settings > Video Mode and choose a mode that will allow you to display your 2 clips side by side on the screen.
Before importing… what video mode should I use? there are dozens listed
I have generated the clips in both 16 x 9 and 9 x 16 thinking that works
sorry to keep hassling you, but there is jus no manual and I have to keep experimentinmg
I really appreciate your comments… thank you very much
There is a “User Guide” link at the top of this page, but it will not necessarily teach you that to put two 5x7 photos onto a single photo album page that you need a large enough photo album. The same concept applies here. Drawing tools refer to this as a canvas size, and document-oriented tools refer to it as a page size. There is no universal terminology for this in video editors, but “mode” is fairly common in video and display technology. In Shotcut, it is in the New Project area as well at the top of the Settings menu. So, we try to make it obvious.
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