@@CrushingJosch Thank you!

@@Myrtuscommunis You are most welcome!

I am no expert, but my understanding is that soluble oil is what is typically used. I made an attempt to made my own, using an emulsifier - it works so-so. At some point I will invest in a gallon of soluble oil concentrate; that will probably last me the rest of my lifetime, no more often than I use it.

@@spectrumtechnologies1753 thank you! I "just" have to find more time ... :)

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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 ...

@@nataliefarris9187 never let work interfere with hobbies.😆

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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. :)

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

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

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

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Thanks for the feedback. I have not had a lot of occasion to experiment further with it, but I have found the need for more liquid in some of what I have tried.

What a wonderful compliment - thank you!

​@@andrewwakefield4519I agree. I hope we haven't seen the last of these Shotcut tutorials 😊

@@StephenSE9 Thanks! I intend to do more. Just have to figure out how to balance the important things (like hobbies) with that pesky need to work ... :)

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

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!

What a lovely compliment - thank you!

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Thanks for the compliment! I did not make a video of making the machine, but I did post plans and talk about the design decisions in this thread on the Home Model Engine Machinist forum: www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/lets-talk-belt-grinders.33242/

@@andrewwakefield4519 Sir, Thanks a lot. It was very helpfull. I'll made mine with these plans.

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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.

Thank you! I definitely plan to do more.

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!

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A DIY mix - water, some oil, and a bit of lecithin to emulsify it. I saw the formula on a forum and gave it a try. I don't have much experience with soluble oil coolant, so can't compare it to "the real thing," but it seemed to work okay for my limited needs.

Yes, to some degree. Based on some recent comments / questions, I have realized that this needs to be my next tutorial. Not sure when I will get time to make it, since this is just a hobby, but hopefully one day soon. In the meantime, here are a couple of ways to "automate" this: Approach 1: Create a "Preset" for each filter, giving it whatever name you want. This will save all of the filter settings, including keyframes ... but not including any background. To use the preset, you would apply the filter to a new video, and once applied, select the preset. Note that you have to create a preset for each filter that you use, and you have to apply that same filter to the new video where you want to use it. So not a complete template, but still a big time savings. Approach 2: Create the entire effect WITHOUT a background picture (remove that track), and save the .MLT file with an appropriate name. In a new video project, click on File->Open MLT as Clip and choose the .MLT file you created. Position this "clip" above your video or other material. It will show the effect on top of your video. The major downside to this approach is that the text will be whatever was in that .MLT file; you will need to edit that file in order to change the text. Still, even with the extra step of editing, this is a handy way to bring over the entire effect. Approach 3: Almost the same as #2, and frankly I don't recommend this approach if #2 can be used ... you can render a video with a transparent background and use that instead of the .MLT file as described in #2. The key is that most video formats do not allow transparent backgrounds, so you have to save it in one of the few formats that do. It's been a while since I have tried to do this, and it seems to me there may be one or two other little tricks to getting it to work right ... I'll have to go back and experiment again to remember. Again, I see no good reason to go this route rather than using approach 2, but perhaps there might be a situation where it is the best option. Note that it has the same drawbacks as #2 - the text is fixed, and you have to go back and edit the video project AND re-render it to get the text you want. Let me hasten to say that there may be a better way than any of these 3 that I do not know about - if so, I look forward to hearing about it! As I said, this is just a hobby for me, so there is far more I don't know than what I do know. :)

@@andrewwakefield4519 Thank you for your answer. I use Movavi on a daily basis and it's all much simpler, but I'm learning ShotCut :).

@@FoHsi There are definitely simpler editors! I tried several, but settled on SC as the best combination of usability and power. (Note that I'm using Linux, so that influenced the choices available.) There are some things I'd love to see included in SC that would make things even easier and more powerful ... that said, the author is actively developing it, and suggestions made in the ShotCut forum often get incorporated. "One of these days" I would love to have the time to try to help with adding features ... but right now have this pesky thing called a job that gets in the way! :)

@@andrewwakefield4519 I'm just curious if the position and dimensions (e.g. fonts) will be recalculated when we change the resolution of the video at the end :). I'm guessing it's better to specify the target resolution at the very beginning. Greetings.

@@FoHsi That is an excellent question. SC will adjust a clip to fit the parameters of the project. That said, I've not tried importing a "template" .MLT file into a project with different parameters - I tend to use [email protected] fps as my standard format, as that's what my cameras produce. I suspect that scaling would work okay, but I wonder how a different frame rate would come over - I guess I need to experiment with that!

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. :)

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

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Thank you!

Hi Lucia, You do not have to create a new track for each new line of text, but you will have to create a new text filter for each new line of text. You can also create a new crop filter each time, OR you can add additional keyframes to the same crop filter each time. It is also possible to create separate files for each line of text / text effect, that you insert into your final video. You can insert a .MLT file (the file format used by Shotcut) as if it were a video. The one thing you will need to explore is how to make the .MLT file come in with a transparent background - the last time I did that, it was not completely intuitive. I would have to go back and look through the Shotcut forum to remember how to do it. For a single video, probably not worth it, but if you are making frequent videos using these text effects, it would probably be worth the effort. Perhaps that should be my next tutorial ... :)

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!

@@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 KZbin Channel Regards from Whitley Bay !

Hi Paul, Yes, it is a bit of guess work, but doesn't take long. Note that the size I used for the text box doesn't have to be exact; it just needs to be a convenient number that I can use to calculate how far to move the text up or down.

@@andrewwakefield4519 Fun enough, that is what I did. I have just finished and published my new 25 second animated intro for my future videos on my channel using the animated text from your video. Here is a link to it. I am very pleased with the result. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKanoZxmnZaFh68

@@itsalldoable Love it! I'm so glad my tutorial was helpful.

@@andrewwakefield4519 It really was, thank you so much 👍👍

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Excellent point. Thanks!

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