I have a video that was recorded in portrait mode but as my slides, which will be inserted into it are in landscape mode, I need to zoom in and crop the video.
As the video shifts, because it was filmed handheld on a mobile, I need to shift the position of the zoomed video from time to time, which I can do by splitting the video into multiple clips.
However, after a time, I am finding that when I go to shift the video, all that happens is that a box moves and the video stays where it is.
I have saved the project, quit and reopened it, but that hasn’t worked. I have even restarted my laptop by first shutting it down completely.
I am not sure if this is a bug or if I am doing something wrong.
It’s fine if I start a new project, but all my edits are in the previous project, so that doesn’t help.
As a side note, I hope I don’t lose this message, as the last one got stuck on saving when my Internet dropped out, and it didn’t save when the Internet returned, so I lost it all.
I am imagining that you have 20 clips on your timeline. And you are adding the Size Position & Rotate filter to each clip and making adjustments. Is that right?
If you could share a screenshot of your Shotcut timeline, that would help a lot.
Thanks for your reply. I have recorded a short video to demonstrate it, which I have uploaded to YouTube. There is also a screenshot in this reply, below the link to the video.
To me it looks like you are not adjusting the filter on the clip that is currently being shown. There are some tracks above the current track “Video clip 1”. If you want to change the position of thing you are seeing, you need to understand which layer is being shown. The video tracks are like layers. If there is something on an upper track that completely covers what is below it, you need to select the clip that is being shown. Then, adjust the Filters on that selected/visible clip. Shotcut can help some with selecting what is shown at any point in time:
Timeline > menu-button > Selection > Select Clip Under Playhead (command+Space)
I italicized “some” because this command does not understand image opacity, which can make things tricky by its nature. All that it does is change selection to the top video clip at the current time.
Thank you. That was the problem. I thought I had switchedd off every other track above, but I had missed one. Originally I thought I would need to use multiple clips for each shifted, not realising I could shift split tracks separately.
I should really delete all the above clips as they are not required any more.
All I need at this stage is the video being edited, the reference track of the video as it was originally, to check against, and the audio track.
