Singapore's "Cruise to Nowhere"

[stgtravels]

We took the Singapore Cruise to Nowhere, and here's how it went!

In my video on the “Cruise to Nowhere”, I made more use of Shotcut’s new Spot Remover filter to blur peoples’ faces, and I love it!

On the performance side, some of my friend’s footage is in 4k, which brought my laptop down to its knees during editing. Even dragging a clip could take up to 10 seconds. I will buy a higher performance workstation to be better suited for video editing.

[RilosVideos]

Did you use proxy editing? This makes it so much easier, esp. with that big 4k files. Give it a try This won’t reduce export time, as encoding will be the same effort for 4k. Proxies are used only for the editing process and the player.

[stgtravels]

I hadn’t heard of this before (I’m quite amateur). I just watched a YouTube tutorial on Shotcut Proxy Clips, and will try it out. Thanks for this great suggestion @RilosVideos!

[RilosVideos]

You are welcome
Just look here: https://youtu.be/PzHutxve2T0

or here:

Proxy Editing

Introduction Proxy editing is the process of creating and using low resolution videos and images in places of the original or optimized (Convert to Edit-friendly) files. This provides the advantage that your computer has less work to do in realtime while editing: decoding, scaling, and effects. This is, quite simply, because there are less pixels to compute. Then, when you are ready to export, it will use the original (or optimized) files for full quality. Performance is optimal when the pre…

[DRM]

You should also combine Preview Scaling with Proxy to really eliminate as much lag as possible:

Preview Scaling

The Preview Scaling setting may be used to reduce the resolution of video processing when you are using a fair amount of filters, transitions, and track blending. This may help with the performance during the editing process. [image] However, keep in mind that the source video or images must typically be scaled down to the designed preview scale, and that will have a processing cost. See Proxy Editing for the remedy to that. Proxy generates substitute clips at the same resolution as preview sc…

Preview Scaling handles the lag that comes from adding filters. Proxy only takes care of making the videos files you are working with less of a burden on your computer. So if you are running on a slower machine make sure to use both at the same time. It’ll definitely allow you to use your current workstation for a much longer time without having to buy a new one. Try both Preview Scaling and Proxy and let us know if they give you a better editing experience. You’re up to date with the latest Shotcut version, right?

And thanks for sharing your videos. They are well made and a good representation of the quality content that can be made using Shotcut. It’d be cool if you put in the video description you’re using Shotcut to help spread the word.

[stgtravels]

Thanks both @DRM and @RilosVideos! I have already used Preview Scaling, and will enable Proxy Editing for my current project. So far the results seem great - a noticeable decrease in response time. Great job to the Shotcut team!