Hello, thank you for your answer.
Sorry but it is somehow foreseeable that the advice is not adhered to by many people. It is just counterintuitive. Even though I read about video mode in the past, it would not have made sense to me to see it in conjunction with (temporary) export settings, simply because it is recommended to set it only once when starting the project and to never change it afterwards.
The page Video Mode tells me about Video Mode: “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.”
Still I do not understand how I can export in two different resolutions (I consider that a reasonable and even frequent use case) if I should not change video mode once set… please clarify.
When not adding media to the timeline, as you suggest as an alternative, how should I then cut the clips?
For somebody who is not involved in developing the app, that is very confusing…
The data flow I need is quite simple: take the original video files (unchanged), clip them on the timeline, then export them to different resolutions…