Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
Updated 12/13/2017
Updated 12/13/2017
Instructions for simple editing of a video file captured in a virtual world. How to pick out the good parts and put them together in a video.
Shotcut opening screen
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Five steps
- Open Shotcut, free opensource software for video editing.
- Load the video file, make Shotcut full screen
- Mark clips and save in Playlist
- Drag clips to timeline
- Export to MP4
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- Shotcut is free opensource software for video editing.
- Shotcut, Tutorial videos from Shotcut
- Shotcut tutorials, general
- Search for Shotcut tutorials
- Adding Text To Your Videos In ShotCut
- Shotcut outputs to common video formats, including MP4.
- Free video resources for virtual worlds: Screen capture beyond FRAPS
- Articles about video from this blog
- Convienient video capture in Windows 10--any window
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- You captured video with interesting segments
- You want to cut it down to those segments
- And render it in mp4 for upload to YouTube.
- The raw video file is probably in a folder called Videos
Load the video file into shotcut
- Start Shotcut, full screen.
- Open the video folder and drag the raw video file onto the Shotcut screen
- Click the Playlist button.
- You are going to turn those interesting segments into clips.
Video file loaded
Mark clips and save in Playlist
- Use the player to find the clips you want to use.
- When you see a clip, go to the start point and press i (for in) on your keyboard.
- Then go to the end place and press o (for out) on your keyboard.
- The clip will be marked by a colored bar underneath.
- You can move the endpoints with your cursor--
- Press/hold the left mouse button on the endpoint, drag it.
- When the clip suits you, save it in the Playlist.
- Click the plus (+) button under the Playlist.
- That copies your clip to the playlist.
- Now you can mark another clip.
- Note that when you start marking the second clip, the first mark vanishes.
- So be sure to save each clip in the playlist.
First clip marked
and copied to playlist
Drag clips to the timeline
- The timeline is in the bottom space and appears when you put a clip there.
- Drag the clips in the order you want for the video.
- If there is a gap between two clips, right click on the gap and click Remove
Clips chosen and
dragged to timeline
Render and post
- When you are finished editing, click Files (upper right)
- Select export. I export to MP4, 1280x720.
- I set my Firestorm viewer screen to capture in those dimensions also.
- In Firestorm, turn on the Advanced menu in Preferences.
Export button to render
as MP4
Promote
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