Voice overs

[brian]

Those technical XML instructions are only necessary if you have a project that was not created with a project folder and you want to add one later after you have started.

I strongly recommend to just start a new project (and do this EVERY time).

See the instructions here:

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put a…

Just type a project name and click “Start”.

@HABalloonist

I have done a few videos and some of them automatically created new files for the voice overs and some want me to create a new name each time.

I suppose that sometimes you created a project folder and sometimes you did not.