Smart Proxy - Editing in lower quality to use less memory?

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Shotcut does not have currently a built in proxy generator but it is being talked about:

Built in proxy generation

I was looking at the video tutorial for proxies, and then I noticed kdenlive(also built on the MLT framework) has it as a simple checkbox in their project settings. Is this something that would be easy to copy their example and add to shotcut?

If you want to do proxies in Shotcut you have to do them manually. Here is a good video that shows how to do that:

Shotcut Proxy Media for Faster Editing Tutorial (Free, Portable 4K Video Editor)