Shotcut doesn't export animations correctly

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Hi everyone, first of all a big thank you to everyone working on Shotcut keep up the good work!
However I’ve ran into a problem. I’m making a short video for an organisation I’m working for and I want to include a little animation in it. I’m using Synfig studio and everything works exactly as planned until I try to export the animation from Shotcut.

In Synfig and in Shotcut’s source and timeline the animation (it’s just a ball moving around at this point, I’m still testing stuff) looks fine, but when I export it suddenly it drops parts of the movement or doesn’t move at all. I’m using the default export settings for mp4, though I did try other formats and codecs but the problem persists (even if the actual point of failure changes).

So, am I doing something wrong or is it a problem with Shotcut?

Cheers though,
“James”

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What is the format of the animation?

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I’ve tried mpeg and mp4. (Gifs too, but that apparently causes Shotcut to crash.)

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So here’s a gif of what’s happening. It should be circle smoothly expanding and fading away as it grows.

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So it works for me now, somehow. I don’t think I did anything differently this time, but now it seems to behaving as it should. I’ll chalk it up as me not knowing what I’m doing.