You're pacing is perfect for a beginner learner. You make this so much easier than most of the other people who have watched tutorials from. I really hope you return to this and make more soon!!!

@nataliefarris9187

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I do want to do some more tutorials ... just have the pesky problem called a job that keeps getting in the way. :( But soon, soon ...

@crapphone7744

Ай бұрын

@@nataliefarris9187 never let work interfere with hobbies.😆

Thank SO MUCH for getting right to the point and teaching without trying to be comedic!

@andrewwakefield4519

7 ай бұрын

You are most welcome!

Your part 1 is beyond excellent - thank you for your assistance and patience without confusing me with unnecessary movements and settingd and stuff👍

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you. Prior comments I agree! I needed help on how to approach animated text over video - but I also learned a lot of new other stuff about using Shotcut. You are now on top of my 3 year old shotcut youtube help rank. Easiest to watch/understand/relate to in my project. Bless you !

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome - thanks for the affirmation!

Wow. Thank you for such clear concise information. Your videos makes Shotcut so much less complex. 🙏🙏🙏

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Thank you Andrew. This tutorial has really set me straight on the best way to use text.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Thank you so much for this lesson. I really appreciate it. 🙏

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, plenty of good advices on how to use shortcut. In a few minutes, we have all the basic we need to add efficiently some nice text to our video !

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

This is an incredible tutorial, you are far more literate in this software than most content providers!

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks for a good tutorial with clear instructions that are helpful for beginners. I like that the author told about different ways to get to the same thing.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

thanks it helped me a lot to know about the basics and most importantly how to properly plan out stuffs in a detailed manner

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad it was helpful.

Excellent tutorial! Thanks!

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Bonjour Andrew et merci pour ce tutoriel bien détaillé et expliqué, avec impatience j'attends le second tuto. Cordialement

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am making good progress on the second tutorial, so hopefully I will not make you wait too long. :)

Just want to say "thank you"! It's gone be very useful in my next video. Thanks.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Many thanks, this is so well explained, easy to follow and just perfect !

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Just fabulous. I arrived here wanting 2 or 3 pieces of information, and ended up learning half-a-dozen new things ! I rarely watch a video end-to-end, but I was just picking up so much new stuff !! And what a fantastic teaching style you have. This is the GOLD STANDARD for tutorial videos on KZread. Sincerest thanks from the UK.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am glad it was useful.

@PawfectLuxurySofas

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree ! GREAT tutorial.

Bravo! Bravo! Excellent tutorial! Thank you for creating this.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

I'm impressed sir! What a explanation is! Every shotcut user should watch this video.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very nicely done!! THANK YOU ANDREW😉

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for this video. I still learning several basic things in Shotcut, and I look forward to see part 2. I cannot figure out how the text comes out from the line, so I look forward to see that. And how this can be saved to be used on other videos.

@sewingmachinesindetail

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I think found how to hide the text with the crop filter, so it appear above the line when text is moved up :) You did say how to use crop, so it made me think again.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@sewingmachinesindetail Thank you for the affirmation, and good work on figuring out how to hide the text using the crop filter. I am making good progress on Part 2, and will show a couple of different ways of hiding and exposing text.

Great job, Andrew! Thank you for the great explanation, I learned so much - very grateful!

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@LouisRoss

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 I am doing a project where I am creating over 25 videos and I was hoping to create a title slide that could be used for each, saving me time in each video. I followed your steps and created a template, which is a dot mlt file. But when I try to use this dot mlt file in the first video, it causes shotcut to crash. It has crashed 4x now. Can shotcut use a dot mlt as one of the video tracks in a new dot mlt file?

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@LouisRoss Hi Louis, Yes, you can use .mlt files as if they were clips. Here is the tutorial video that helped me get started doing this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKGBuJikerm4oJs.html. Two words of warning: First, like you, I found that sometimes using .mlt files as clips would make Shotcut crash. Sometimes it would crash two or thee times ... and then after that it would work just fine. More recently, I have not found Shotcut crashing in this situation, and I'm not sure if the difference is that I'm using a new computer - no more RAM, but significantly faster - or that I have continued to upgrade Shotcut to the latest stable version. IOW, if you haven't updated your Shotcut to the latest version, give that a try and see if it fixes the problem. The other word of warning: the .mlt file comes in as a monolithic clip, meaning that you cannot access the individual filters or items that went into that .mlt file; you can only use it as if it were a rendered .mp4 file. Of course, you can re-open that .mlt file as a project in Shotcut, edit it, and save it back, then go back to the project where you use it as a clip - and while that sounds a bit tedious, it really works well for the use case you are describing - you only need to "tweak" it until it is just right, and from then on you just use it. But there is one more implication of this second warning that may not be obvious: when you created the source .mlt file, you may have set backgrounds to transparent ... but when you import the .mlt file into a new project as a clip, it comes in just the way it would play on a video player. That means that any place where there is only transparency in the clip will come in as solid black. What if you want to save a .mlt clip with just the overlay of text, intending for it to overlay something in your new project? To do that, you will need to use a chroma key filter to filter out the black background. (Alternately, create your clip with a "green screen" background, and filter that out.) As an alternative, you can also render the .mlt file in a format that can support transparency. I have not done this, so don't know the details off the top of my head, but if you go to the Shotcut forum (forum.shotcut.org/), some searching will find posts about this.

@LouisRoss

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 This is very helpful, Andrew, thank you for taking the time. I will review and work my way through it.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@LouisRoss You are most welcome!

WOW! Amazing first tutorial! So many useful information for Shotcut users of all levels of experience.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

@MusicalBox, thank you so much - that means a lot coming from someone with your experience! (I love your work!)

16 minutes for simple text insertion, and that's only part one. ShotCut... 😁 Very good tutorial, many new features I discovered.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad it showed some new features! Yes, sometimes video editing can be laborious ... but over time you build up a "library" of methods and templates, and it gets faster and easier. :)

I watched so many videos here on shotcut for beginners, but your are far better then others. Much in detail with so much ease. Keep it up. Lots of thanks.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you!!

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Just one word: Excellent!

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome thank you

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn how to use these features. Well. Well done. Clear, accurate and comprehensive. I signed up and gave you a like. 👋

@andrewwakefield4519

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Nice well explained and thought out.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you, and if possible, please produce new videos about the shotcut.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome! I hope to do some new videos soon ... a little thing called work keeps getting in the way!

Thank you

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

Love your work from india

@andrewwakefield4519

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. What part of India? I had a wonderful visit in Kerala, but have not yet been able to visit anywhere else in India. I hope to, someday!

Bonjour et merci pour cette première partie bien expliquée, j'attends aussi la partie 2 qui arrive bientôt je l'espère

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Cela a pris plus de temps que je ne l'espérais, mais enfin la partie 2 est terminée. Voici le lien: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4SM26yhedq9mLw.html

@oxi.family

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 hoo super merci beaucoup, hâte de voir la vidéo

Hi, thx for this super-educationl video. At 14:20 ... May I ask how you did get this this specific type of FontSelection GUI, with this nice preview? In my Shotcut version and in all the other ShotCut videos this GUI looks very different and doesn't have this intuitive preview.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

Chalk it up to "progress." Apparently they have "updated" the font selection dialog in more recent versions of Shotcut. In the version I am currently using (22.11.25), the dialog gives more control - you can select font, style (bold, italic, bold+italic), size, effects such as strikeout and underline, and even the "writing system" (e.g., Greek, Latin, Chinese, etc.). The downside is that you only see a very small "sample" of the selected font in the lower right corner. On the one hand, I appreciate the greater control, and to be fair, this new dialog is more consistent with the interface of many other programs that I use ... but I agree that it was nice to get a "visual" selection of fonts in the older dialog box.

12:56 No "Transparent" button on mine :( Edit: NVM, updated and it's there, yay! On with the tutorial :)

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you got it sorted. Enjoy!

I wait for more advanced video on shortcut

@andrewwakefield4519

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. I intend to do more ... finding time is the hard part!

Hi, thanks a lot for your tutorial. But at 9:28 I can not adjust the size and position in the filter. I can only click and drag the white rectangle but the adjustments are not exact. Please tell me the reason I can not do as the same as you did in the video. Thank you very much.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Dzung, which version of Shotcut are you using? There was a bug in Shotcut a version or two ago, just as you described, but it has been fixed now. Try upgrading to the latest version and see if that takes care of it.

I am sorry it took so long, but finally Part 2 is finished. Here is the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4SM26yhedq9mLw.html

Please make more shotcut videos

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

I want to! And I plan to. Right now my time for this is sparse, due to work, so I can't predict when it will be, but hopefully soon. Thanks!

I'm running Shotcut 22.01.30. Tried to use Crop, Rectangle to create a line. Resizing with the "handles" worked fine. But adjusting using the size/position using the numbers doesn't work. So I had to use the mask filter instead.

@holylibor

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, unfortunately I´m experiencing the same problem with this version (portable) No way to change the numeric values :-( and I could not size the hight down manually less than 26px :-( Someone any Idea?

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this seems to be a bug in 22.01.30 - but I just downloaded 22.03.30 and it is fixed there.

My version of Shotcut is newer than the one used here, but many things do not work on mine. The numerical boxes where you adjusted the line height and positioning do not affect the line on mine. Also the up/down arrows next to those boxes do not work. Plus when I go from one task to another, one of the the box perimeter drag lines always remains from the previous task, even after finishing. So many functions malfunction in my version of ShotCut which is 22.01.30

@andrewwakefield4519

2 ай бұрын

Sorry to be slow in responding - that pesky work thing that gets in the way of hobbies! I do not have version 22.01.30 at hand, but I tested the steps using the latest version (as of this comment), 24.02.29. There are definitely some changes in the user interface, so not everything looks quite the same. (For example, choosing colors leads to a more capable dialogue than the simple one shown in this video.) That said, the numerical boxes that allow adjusting the height and positioning look and function just the same in 24.02.29 as they did in the version I used here (21.06.29). There are two possible "gotchas" that can make it appear that things are not working. One is that there are quite a few options available for some filters, and it is possible - depending on the screen layout - that the boxes that allow numerical setting are scrolled out of sight. This can still catch me from time to time if I have not used Shotcut recently - for some reason I tend not to see that there is a scroll bar there. (Given that you are seeing the numerical settings, I am assuming that this is not the problem you are having, but wanted to mention it just in case.) The other gotcha - which catches me sometimes even when I have been working with Shotcut regularly - is that it is easy to have the wrong track selected, or the wrong place on the timeline, and therefore be adjusting the wrong filter. This catches me especially when I have multiple filters of the same type but in different places in my video - either on other tracks, or at different places within a track. When you are looking at the filters in the dialogue area on the left, you will see the filters for whatever track and time is selected down in the timeline - even if that track and time is not what is showing on the screen. In other words, if you have turned off visibility for a track that has a text filter, but that track is selected, that text filter is what you will see in the filters dialogue. You can change every setting as much as you want, and nothing will appear to happen ... because it is happening to the invisible text/track! I don't know if any of the above will be helpful with what you are experiencing. If not, you may want to bring your question to the Shotcut forum. The folks there are very helpful and mostly patient even when I ask a "d'oh!" question. :)

@Scoottoots

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 Thank you for your suggestions. I appreciate that. I will examine what I'm doing with your thoughts in mind. Enjoy your day 🙂

How do you use large text to scroll across the screen. I know how to use key frames, but whenever I write a long sentance to scroll, Shotcut thinks I am putting it on one page, so shrinks the font. I have ticked used actual font size, but it is still far too small.

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

Brian, the key is to adjust the Size parameters in the text filter - these control the width and height of the text box in pixels. Typically the width parameter will default to the horizontal number of pixels in your video format, while the height parameter will default to something like 1/4 of the vertical number of pixels - for example, if your video is 1080p, it will be 1920 x 1080 pixels, and the Size parameters will default to 1920 and 270. If you change the first parameter to something *larger* than the actual width, that will allow the text box to extend beyond the edge of the screen. For example, try setting the first Size parameter to 3840 - that will allow text up to twice the width of the screen, which you can scroll across the screen by adjusting the Position parameter. Using this approach, it may actually be easier to uncheck the "use font size" check box, so that the text will fully fill the text box; you can control the size of the letters by adjusting the height of the text box. At the risk of stating the obvious, note that you may need to allow additional height to accommodate the text.. Hopefully that was clear enough to point you in the right direction ... but if not, reply and I will try to clarify further!

@brianmorrison9168

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 Many thanks for your very detailed reply. I actually found the solution myself by accident ... as you say, just increase the size of the box, from the normal 1920 x 1080 to a larger size, keeping the ratio the same .. I went up to 5760 x 3240 (3x) and everything worked out fine. Good luck with your KZread Channel Regards from Whitley Bay !

My version (20.07.11) does not have an option for "transparent" to change the line's background color. Is there another method?

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Chuck, I downloaded 20.07.11 to see how it worked. As you say, it lacks the "Transparent" button in the Crop:Rectangle filter. But that is actually just a shortcut, and you can still set the padding color to transparent. Click on the little box labeled "Padding Color" to bring up the color dialogue. Here you can set a huge range of colors ... but actually, we don't care about the color; we care about the "Alpha Channel." Look for this setting after the Red, Green, and Blue settings on the right of the dialogue box. When the Alpha Channel is set to maximum (255), the color selected will be fully opaque; when the Alpha Channel is set to minimum (0), the color selected will be fully transparent. Obviously, you can select something semi-transparent by setting the Alpha Channel to a number between 0 and 255 - but for this tutorial, just set the Alpha Channel to 0 and click OK. That will give you the transparent background.

@ChuckHaney

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 wow! Thanks so much for figuring this out!!!

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChuckHaney You are welcome!

@abey776

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 Oh my God!!! Thank you so much! I had the same issue but your clever brain helped me too so so much!!!

@andrewwakefield4519

Жыл бұрын

@@abey776I am so glad it was helpful!

I'm finding Shotcut the most frustrating thing on the planet. I add still photographs and simple text to a video I am trying to make but when I export it under the youtube video file, the text doesn't show up and the pictures come up as a white screen. What am I doing wrong please?

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Without seeing your project, it is hard to say, but let me offer two suggestions that may help. First, try turning off hardware acceleration when you export; for certain video configurations, this option does not work correctly. Second, post your question, along with some screen shots of your project, at forum.shotcut.org. This is a great resource that has helped me and many others.

@nokturnalkelt

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 thank you Andrew

This product is very difficult to use. I've had to give up.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, NLV (non-linear video) editing is not without a learning curve, even in its simplest form.I make no claims to expertise, but have done some poking around with different programs, especially those that are available for low or no cost. I would say the easiest to use might be OpenShot, but only when it works; at times it has been pretty buggy. And it is somewhat limited in its capabilities. I tried DaVinci Resolve, which is widely considered pro-level ... I found it very difficult to use, but I know others who like it very much. There are others, but long story short, for me personally, Shotcut has turned out to be the best compromise between capability and learning curve. Naturally, YMMV!

You mean I have to go to all that trouble just to get a white line??

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

No, there are many ways to get a white line, some using other filters than the two I was featuring here, and some using external ways of generating the line. That said, I do think Shotcut would benefit from a "Line:Simple" filter to go along with the many other filters ... one of these days, I'd love to have the time to contribute this feature.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

I should have mentioned: even without a filter to do this in one easy step, you really only have to go through a process such as I have shown here once. Then you can save the .mlt file and use it over and over again as a template for other projects. You can also save filter "presets," which will include any keyframes.

@rideyourbike

2 жыл бұрын

No. This is a level above. If you want to or need to or have time to do it. All my videos are made with Shotcut with the most basic presets...

Just subscribe to your channel 🙂

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Why can't you just grab the text and move it up or down etc? Too many calculations on pixel sizes, etc just to move a text. Not good.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

John, you can certainly just move the text up or down using the buttons that adjust the values, or using a variety of methods / filters. I like to calculate so that I can reproduce the same effect every time, but that is simply personal preference.

@junity1

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 Thank you.

Too much effort for my opinion. But anyway, thanks for this good tutorial.

@andrewwakefield4519

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I will say that once one has made an effect like this, it is easy to re-use and/or recreate quickly.

much too much for me

@andrewwakefield4519

4 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear it. There is definitely a learning curve for any NLVE (non-linear video editor)!

@thrillermix

4 ай бұрын

@@andrewwakefield4519 Program isnt too easy when it comes to subtitles etc. Your videos are good enough! ^^ Greetings