I’m a little late to this thread and I wonder if the suggested solutions have changed. I just started using Shotcut about four weeks ago and I have been having a devil of a time because the app keeps becoming unresponsive. If I pause playback, it doesn’t pause right away and other times playback is choppy and sometimes the video freezes while the audio keeps playing. Thankfully it has a auto save because I have had to close the app numerous times before being able to save my work. That little blue circle just runs and runs around.
I tried to put together five short videos and add in a few still frames plus two additional audio tracks. The total time length is about 24 minutes. It took from 10:45 pm until 3:10 am to complete this with the app becoming unresponsive 11 times! That doesn’t count all the times the little blue circle kept coming up for several tens of seconds or when the app screen would just disappear, reappear, disappear, and come back.
My final task, after being satisfied that my video was complete, was to export it. I went to sleep after initiating the export but woke up to find the app had crashed after 7%. I tried three more times to export the video but the app crashed twice at 19% and once at 17%. By this point I am ready to go buy some professional software because while Shotcut seems to offer so much, it is so frustrating to use with all the freezing and crashing.
Any suggestions before I uninstall it for good? I have a video to make for a friend soon and if I can’t do it with Shotcut then I will give up.