Timeline Settings

[dankhara]

Dear Friends. I am so sorry to bother you guys with my stupid questions, but I am new to all this and I am feeling so lost. Could you please tell me how to set my timeline settings for best quality video? Also, do I need to do this for every project? or I can save the Timeline settings for all of my projects?
Thank you so much.

[shotcut]

There is no single “best” answer. A best practice is to choose a Video Mode that best matches the majority of what your camera creates. The easiest way to do that is to use Video Mode = Automatic and ensure you always start with a video from your (main) camera. Otherwise, if you want to set and forget a predictable Video Mode, then open a video from your camera, and look in Properties. Note, the Resolution and Frame rate. Then, choose the closest match in menu Settings > Video Mode.

Video Mode

Introduction Video Mode is the project resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, and color space. It is important to set this as you desire at the beginning of your project. If you try to change it later Shotcut will try to retain the timing of edits, but some users have reported problems, and it is risky. Also, at this time Shotcut will not automatically adjust anything for you related to size and positioning of elements like text and picture-in-picture when changing resolution. You can think of…

[dankhara]

Thank you So very much for your help!!!