Suggestion for smaller file size with good quality

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Without knowing specifics, here are some general suggestions:

  1. Restart Shotcut to get back to the default export option.
  2. Ensure that Export panel > “Use hardware encoder” is not checked unless you have a 7th-gen NVENC GPU like Nvidia RTX 20xx or higher.
  3. Hit the Advanced button, go to the Codec tab, and lower the quality percentage until the quality/file size trade-off is acceptable to you.
  4. If step #3 was not sufficient reduction, go to the Advanced > Other tab, change these lines to say vprofile=veryfast and vpre=veryfast, then repeat quality tests for step #3.

I’m guessing that hardware encoding could be causing the file size problem. Older GPUs frequently produce file sizes that are 3x larger than software encoders for the same quality level.

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