Shotcut Video Editor - Tutorial for Beginners in 10 MINUTES! [ COMPLETE ]

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Learn how to use Shotcut Video Editor in 10 mins! Shotcut tutorial for beginners, getting started, basics.
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00:00 Intro
00:40 New Project
01:29 Workspace and Workflow
02:09 Timeline and Clips
03:14 The Preview
03:56 The Scopes
04:21 Editing on Timeline
05:40 Properties Panel
06:44 Filters Panel
08:06 Adding Titles
09:16 Keyframing
09:52 Rendering Video
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[@bai]

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[@MerazChowdhury_MC]

Who gives a crap if they said the name wrong...this tutorial helped me out soo much. Thank you bai!

[@renegadusunidos6151]

payts bai

[@kubicalm909]

ikr i noticed it and was like "ehh..."

[@arabicnafs]

bai

[@Green-vf6ff]

One youtuber also named it Shotgun but who cares they help us.

[@arabicnafs]

@@Green-vf6ff lol shotgun that's the funni oofdie is finding

[@artedguru]

YOU SAVED ME HOURS OF WORK. Thanks from a Teacher during Covid19!

[@bai]

No problem, thank you!! Let's hope this bad period goes by...

[@tallbean8565]

STOP SENDING US SO MUCH HOMEWORK plz

[@matthewlake01]

@@tallbean8565 lol

[@thegreath.sapiensapien6907]

too fast

[@nishapagar]

I'm literally here to for the same reason.

[@norolover4015]

Legend, I can finally make the memes I've been imagining im my head!

[@bai]

This is amazing!!!

[@archington1851]

Can you even do that on this?

[@themisterseal]

Well I'm gonna idk. Make videos maybe. My channel bio says all.

[@miguelmalvina5200]

@@themisterseal All video editors have the same purpose lol

[@chewy2430]

@@bai bai exuse me but whenver i drop a video the screen is white

[@douglasmurphy1113]

*THIS* is how you do a tutorial video. gets straight into the action and makes it clear as day.

[@Aruesx]

I have gained so much respect for you because you did the whole thing in one take. I'm watching this to edit my final project for history and have to do a voice over and let me tell you, it is horrible how many takes I had to take to get it done in 4 separate clips. Keep up the good work.

[@bai]

Dear viewers, We understand your comments related to the wrong name read by our voiceover, which mistakenly read 'Shortcut' instead of 'Shotcut'. We appreciate if you accept this error and forgive it and consider the high quality of the content of the video itself behind it. Unfortunately, we *won't have the possibility* to re-upload the video with this correction at this time, since we are working to deliver other great tutorials for you. Next time we will warn our voiceovers to follow the correct name. Thank you very much!

[@midnightdrifter7391]

Sadly my wifi not good so the quality is not so good for me. The sound is good tho

[@melissarainchild]

Accepted...shortcut illustrates what it seems to be: a shoRtcut to completing a video project :)

[@collinalmario2449]

@Indiana Gividen shorts fired

[@Ventuist]

bruh people really complaining about that?!!??!

[@melissarainchild]

@@Ventuist yea, like...c'mon man...Shotcut is so easy it's like a shoRtcut to results...get with the plan :)

[@undeadastronaut1746]

screw adobe pro premiere, this is more than enough for a rookie content creator

[@ChrisLT]

Man, this is one of the most efficient tutorials I've seen. Super handy, and super tight. Thanks!

[@bai]

Awesome :D

[@mySeaPrince_]

@@bai Brilliant video... Two things I would have liked you to add.. Audio synchronisation? Also with any software.. minimum hardware specifications.. Will it run on a normal home computer.. or which older version to do this...

[@bai]

@@mySeaPrince_ Thank you very much! We will include these in our next tutorial series!

[@renegadegamer8582]

This really helped me, at first I was so confused how to use the program lol, this tutorial may not have been the best, but it certainly helped me to start slow. Great video btw!

[@bai]

Great to hear! Thank you very much!!

[@arl7d]

This video is gonna be a "shortcut" for you to learn how to use "Shotcut".. thanks for the great video, Bai!

[@ultravioletentertainment7332]

Booo get off the stage (jk it was a good one)

[@DatKidNoiZa]

@@ultravioletentertainment7332 this was funny

[@gsiya4023]

@@ultravioletentertainment7332 wink wink it wasnt

[@awozii5618]

6 Hours of editing and it didn't go to waste, thanks!

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@rynuxx2978]

I've never thought that it will be this powerful. Shotcut is amazing for a amateur video editor. Thanks for this.

[@ecv80]

Thank you, this was comprehensive yet short.

[@bai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@techmarathiandhindi]

Very nice video.

[@ericmoller1890]

Excellent tutorial, thank you so much! I love the calm, measured voice-over and the systematic way the information is presented. Job well done!

[@bai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@abbyjewett]

This is a fantastic tutorial. I downloaded Shotcut after being overwhelmed by Davinci Resolve. I have a low spec computer and was frustrated with the lagging of Davinci. Now I'm trying out Shotcut because I needed it for basic editing tasks for KZbin videos. The audio functionality is a wonder as well! I love how simple it is compared to Davinci! Thank you so, so much for this tutorial.

[@bai]

You're welcome! :3

[@lvntravels]

@@bai please do an update for us beginners we NEED you 😫

[@bai]

@@lvntravels Yes, we can realize an updated version soon, why not!!

[@songsofthesiren874]

I am so grateful for this video! I put up my first video a week ago. I still had a hard time because I don't do anything like this and don't know much about computers, but I just wanted to get started! Stop being afraid to fail, and just start. Your video was short but contained so much information! I downloaded it and watched your video and that was it. I will take time now to watch the rest to make my videos even better. Thank you.

[@bai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lamborghinicentenario2497]

I came for Shotcut, found a Shortcut to editing skill

[@arlenedomingo5074]

Boo get off the stage jk lolol sorry

[@grayy10k]

@@arlenedomingo5074 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[@snoovian7951]

@@arlenedomingo5074 says the dude who sounds like every girl in middleschool (this was written by a girl in middleschool so this is extra embarrassing)

[@t.w.t.v.]

I heard it too. At least it was a useful tutorial.

[@rickie7589]

Finally!! A tutorial that I can understand. I am a complete beginner in video editing who doesn't know the first thing, of the jargon of video software. I need the lowest step to learning and since I am an elderly person using a free video editor I need that extra info and you provide it here. Thank you so very much.

[@bai]

Thank you!!! Good luck with your first videos!!

[@crazybieberchic]

Thank you! This was very helpful and informative! It was concise, easy to follow, and straight to the point

[@wahyudecisa2365]

Simple and comprehensive. Thank you so much!!

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

Is it possible to control at what time in the video the text appears, and for how long? For example, if I wanted to add text at 1:30 into a video and make the duration of the text 15 seconds?

[@RoosterStranglr]

I spent like 2 hours trying to get 8 seconds of text right last night. Finally got it by making another video track with a transparent background. You can find tutorials on it.

[@bai]

We will improve this point in our next tutorials!

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

@@bai Ok great, thanks.

[@b00tybanditgaming67]

There is a bunch of ways to do it u can make a separate timeline above the first by right clicking and pushing “add video track” then split in TWO parts where u want the text to start and end, then drag the split part of the video into the new timeline you made then boom that’s probably the fastest and easiest way I can think of

[@ryanbloom7246]

u could cut at the place where u wanted the text to start and stop, i guess

[@dalek-trooper6557]

Thank you for this tutorial. Most of my favourite youtubers had effects like this in their videos, and I wanted to use something that isn't the default video editor on Windows 10. Now I can finally make better videos then what I used to make.

[@m.c.4697]

Wow! I knew nothing about Shotcut and didn't know how big of a learning curve there would be or if it had enough features for what I need. This tutorial answered ALL of that and put me on a fast-track for getting started. One of the best tutorials I have seen for any product. Great job, thank you!

[@bai]

Thank you so much!!

[@chinbag]

As someone who’s always wanted to make long-form media reviews/critiques, this may be the push to start. Thank you!

[@songsofthesiren874]

Did you start? I hope so. Just do it.

[@pratyaygamingop8423]

Thanks for teaching everything about Shortcut only in 10 mins. You saved my time.

[@bai]

You're welcome!

[@vincognito]

This is a truly well crafted piece of software. I'm a Linux user and have used KdenLive for awhile now. I find the interface of that program to be clunky and difficult to manage. The developers of Shotcut clearly had the user in mind. The way they use tabs reduces clutter without making the operation you need impossible to find is just awesome. Elegant software. One thing I love is dragging a clip on the same timeline over another creating an automatic crossfade. Also, the intuitive idea of grabbing the top edge of the clip to create a fade is brilliant. The developers have done their best to compress an operation into one move instead of two or three. This can seriously improve workflow. Even cutting a clip is so simple just by using a button. In Kdenlive, I have to set the playhead over the area I want to cut, click on the cut tool, and then very carefully overlay the cut tool over where the playhead is sitting. I find all of the commonly used features in video editing programs to be a snap in Shotcut. I just downloaded the program yesterday and I'm already doing operations on it that would have taken me a good deal of time to figure out how to do in Kdenlive. If you're a user that doesn't have a high power, state of the art computer this program just works. Another annoyance I find in Kdenlive is the choppy preview window. I went through literally hours to try and find a solution to this irritation. After following instructional videos to the letter, I still couldn't improve the choppiness. Kudos to the developers of making not only a amazing piece of software but keeping it free and open source as well.

[@shamuscross8630]

out of every tutorial video i seen you are by far the best!!!! doesnt make a 40min long video that is totally unhelpful, but instead shows us everything we need to start off! thank you very much good sir, subscribed.

[@bai]

Wow, thanks!

[@alabrrmrbmmr]

Awesome! If only every tutorial was so well done. I think you just saved me at least 5 hours of playing around on my own. Thank you 🙏

[@bai]

No problem :D

[@ushi4212]

This is a great tutorial. It took me less than 2 minutes to figure out what I was doing wrong!

[@theworkathomegraduate9764]

wow. This has to be the most helpful video I have watched about any video tutorial. I normally get so confused with the tutorials but this was on point. Thanx .God bless

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@RachBurns2]

Hello! I wanted to say thank you for such a simple to understand tutorial about Shotcut. This one has so many more options than the one I was using and I can't wait to try these things out.

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@SuperChargedPlays]

This is great! Didn't know how to adjust audio before this, then learned all this other useful stuff!

[@bai]

Awesome!!!

[@oscarjackson6849]

Me to...Thank u very much

[@mikebb7999]

This was a REALLY GOOD tutorial, actually one of the best I´ve seen, It explains all I needed to know to use the program in a easy way to understand, congratulations.

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@DavesWreaths]

As a brand new person diving into the world of KZbin, this was such a HUGE help in editing my videos. THANK YOU for such an informative video. I could not have done it without your tutorial. GREAT JOB!!!

[@bai]

Thank you so much!!

[@EnglishTeacherKriss]

Thank you so much for this clear, concise and well-spoken tutorial. Much appreciated. Have a great Sunday.

[@bai]

No problem, thank you very much!

[@hawkeyeaerialphotography6652]

This is the video I recommend to everyone starting out with shotcut.

[@mihail4873]

ok

[@jeniquejolly2469]

FINALLY! Editing software that has the lightness of Windows Movie Maker Live and the capabilities of layers like Adobe Premiere all at the low low price of FREE! This can run on my 2 core processer!

[@bai]

Yesssss glad you have resolved!

[@observer6415]

What you had show is quite comprehensible tuitorial about the editor since i'm a novice editor myself. Thank you very much bai.

[@bai]

You are welcome!

[@muhammadadnan1648]

To the point, comprehensive, on time waster, infact best Video among any of these tutorials.. I have to get this software now incase if i see another software tutorial from you than i might get confused.

[@internetheel9487]

It feels really great when the ad appears after the video instead of the beginning

[@GudieveNing]

Great demo! Coming from Resolve, Premiere and FCP X, this looks very well designed, something Adobe in particular could learn from. Clever the way overlapping two clips ('shots') will automatically add a crossfade. Nice! Whole UX looks superb. Going to download and try on Windows to see if it will work for our workflow.

[@bai]

Awesome!!

[@teach-learn4078]

Nice, me too. And just enjoying hating on Adobe a little here, ahem, they will rip you off horribly on the account cancelation. Like it's making a lot of work for your bot to discontinue your subscription, the bot is workin' up a sweat man, and there's a lot of mid-level managers need to get involved! That'll be like $60 USD or whatever it was just to get out of their s***! Unfortunately they won a class-action lawsuit around 2012, the f-ers. Anyway, I will never, never, never (never say never) never used Adobe again, and I hope they rot! I do miss Premiere though. So this great, thanks a lot for the very good video. You might want to check out the dangling participle thing, had my head spinning a couple times there but otherwise great vid! Live long and prosper dude! Keep rockin the good karma!

[@t.w.t.v.]

I have used Shotcut to edit my last couple of videos and I love it. This software is free and very easy to use. I love that I can use it off of my External SSD. I am interested to learn more about it and get better with it in the future.

[@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy]

Short and sweet. Love it! ❤️

[@prabas8190]

Very concise and a complete tutorial for beginning on ShotCut. Thank You.

[@bai]

You're welcome!

[@aishwaryar2748]

Very useful ! The teaching was on point and precise. Thank you !

[@bai]

Glad you liked it!!!

[@desertqwest]

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm learning my workflow with my new insta360 software combined with Shotcut. I can't wait to put it all together for some great content!

[@OdetteML]

Thank you so much for this! Detailed yet concise. This is the first video I watched after downloading Shotcut. Transitioning now from mobile editing to pc editing. Wish me luck.

[@bai]

We wish you the best luck!

[@s4if]

Thank you. The tutorial is simple and easy to understand. Very helpful!

[@bai]

You are welcome!

[@Samuel-yo2ht]

For anyone who can't use the timeline there are 3 very small dots around the bottom try dragging that up You can adjust it to ur position

[@topmansquad9558]

Thanks you sooooooooo much!

[@mattisdying21]

@@topmansquad9558 where do i find the properties button? it's not showing up in mine

[@bai]

We will include this detail in our next video!!

[@topmansquad9558]

@@mattisdying21 at the top where playlist and history should be

[@hasempire0722]

that helped a lot. Thanks!

[@kneeboardtorque5971]

Thank you. I was nervous and about to return to an old complicated editing package I'd bought years ago. I was looking for a simple video editing package. Your tutorial helped me be brave and change. Simple, focused and will communicated. Thanks again.

[@bai]

Thank you so much!!

[@fazalmehmood1126]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. "brevity is the soul of wit"

[@bai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SuperTylerMan11]

Thank you so much for this help! It made it easier for me to edit. I needed to edit a video. Thanks for your help @bai

[@bai]

Great to hear!

[@johnpires3777]

I've been trying to find a way to do this all day. Thanks!

[@donn4life]

Very helpful to get started, thank you! I wanted to make a small video and chose Shotcut from a video editing comparison article on some website. I wanted to combine images and audio and also move and scale the images. This video showed me everything I needed for that (especially the keyframes part)!

[@bai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kianiano]

Thank you so much! Very easy, very short and really time-saving, great, Thank you! :-)

[@bai]

You're welcome!

[@JerJerKingfakejerjer]

why pronouncing the name of the software was an issue though? Atleast they gave you an in depth tutorial. people these days though lol.

[@oscarjackson6849]

That's the best 10min class I ever had...you're a great tutor I have learned a lot. Thank you very much

[@bai]

Thank you so much!!

[@0hfreddy182]

thank you very much! this video helped me a lot understanding the basics of this program.

[@bai]

Thank you for watching!

[@SukanyaGoodVibes]

This is such an awesome tutorial! In 10 mins I learned almost everything that I needed to know to edit my videos. Thank you

[@bai]

Great to hear!

[@Gonzo0102]

Thanks a lot :D

[@Zeoxis6]

Very much appreciated, I'm just getting started with editing and this video is an absolute gold mine of information. Thank you for sharing!

[@bai]

No problem!!!

[@shadowchris_2kn852]

Dude , you're an absolute hero ! This is not only a free video editor , but it can replace my YouCut-Video editor from android having the same functionality and more options . Thank you for making the video , you deserve a reedit medal !

[@bai]

Thank you very much!!

[@kashhnotfound]

people are expecting everything in 10 mins video like yours !!!!!!

[@bai]

What is missing from this video?

[@m1chael804]

I like how I went to the comment section to see if anybody commented on “Shortcut” lmao

[@Chertograad]

I just wanted to say thank you for the awesome video! I'm a beginner when it comes to videoediting and I've been looking for a perfect free solution. There seems to be a plethora of options (around 10 or so) from which to choose from but I decided to go with Shotcut. I did also look at OpenShot but some people said it's unstable, crashes, freezes and stutters at times and lots of folks seemed to say Shotcut was the way to go. This video was perfect since lots of videos are close to 2 hours or so and 10 minutes is way more doable as a watcher and the video seemed to have most of the important stuff explained with an easy to follow manner. I didn't know about keyframes or how to fade in or out. I just used the plus button to add the effects and didn't know I could just drag and drop from a corner. That will save me quite a bit of time. And keyframes seem like a great way to animate stuff. The first time I did a test edit, I didn't know you could animate stuff so I just copypasted the same photo all the time on like every frame which resulted (understandably) in a very stuttery end result. I'm new to this stuff so I didn't know any of the basic concepts. So thanks again!

[@bai]

This is simply wonderful!! Thank you!

[@Dani-gw4pl]

thank you so much, know i know how to edit videos for youtube :) also the tutorial is very good because you are very calm and explaining step by step what to do and for what. Keep up the good work !

[@bai]

You're welcome 😊

[@frozenpandafeetalexander1353]

Great video and honestly, the pronunciation mistake is easily skippable unless yer someone that looks for perfection only ;). Yer program is quite neat and really great as I was looking for an alternative to Windows Movie Maker for quite some time since my laptop that has it isn't that usable anymore, sadly -_-.

[@willjfit9345]

Hi there, it won’t let me expand anything like the timeline, playlist etc to make it fit the screen better, how do I fix this?

[@Samuel-yo2ht]

there are 3 very small dots around the bottom try dragging that down

[@Youda00008]

Thank you. These quick tutorials help me decide which video editing software i'm gonna start to learn.

[@bai]

Outstanding!! Thank you!!

[@VincePatron]

Excellent tutorial! Clear and concise. THank you! I am up and running in minutes.

[@bai]

Great to hear!

[@sircompliments5380]

This software is truly from heaven. I am Finally going to be able to start my youtube channel!

[@arunmohan5652]

is this paid software?

[@deltamikeaviation]

@@arunmohan5652 its free

[@prod.vemberxo]

this helped a lot. thank you

[@freatythedreary5491]

Thank you so much for the video, I learned a lot from tinkering around Shotcut for just this one afternoon. Hopefully I will actually learn to edit stuff for real this time

[@bai]

Amazing!! Best luck with your next videos!

[@user-jr7dd6wz2p]

Wow thanks so much! I upload video on games and I'm mostly mobile, and I've been trying to find a pc editing software for 1 month, no luck. Then I came across this, and it seemed legit. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@bai]

Glad to hear it!

[@yuhnib9090]

From vietnam with love Thanks

[@bai]

Thank you!!

[@BjenTheBlaster]

I kinda always said shortcut and got confused why I couldn't find it untill I noticed it said Shotcut. I still keep forgetting tho

[@interesespedrocm]

Amazing tutorial about Shotcut! I was going crazy to learn how to use just the basics, you have saved me hours of headache! Thanks.

[@bai]

You're welcome!

[@desireer6915]

Thank you SO MUCH. This is by far the best tutorial video I've found for ShotCut!!

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@mariagracia1064]

How do I get rid of the “noise” that creates a bad microphone? I’ve being trying to find that property but I can’t find it

[@SCGO.]

So I’m not sure how to do this with shotcut, BUT, I do know a way to do it with Streamlabs obs, which is a free recording software. You just simply add a filter called noise suppression and adjust it from there.

[@plasmarade]

I've been using it for the past weeks and I didn't even noticed it's not shortcut Lmao

[@SushmitNaik]

Absolutely love this Tutorial! To the point! Great Job! Saved me so many hours!

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@Colombo5218]

Absolutely superb! Thank you.

[@user-ch4yn1xr6f]

I used to edit on mobile but after watching this I decided to switch to PC thx

[@bharathipriya9902]

R uknorean

[@Porblorbulon]

When you trust autocorrect with your script

[@relaxingnepal4k]

Great video, Bai. Thank you. :)

[@kinguman308]

great tutorial for a great editor, I just switched from Filmora and this tutorial made the transition really smooth

[@chris_favreau]

I'm just trying to figure out how you got drunk Bill Clinton to do the voiceover? Great video btw... Very helpful. Thank you.

[@LordBransty]

There was an intern under the table

[@abbyc.7060]

To be honest filmora is a great editor and I spent five hours on a project and then realized that it had a huge watermark...

[@JosiahJS976]

Abby C. yeah their watermark sucks and is an over kill

[@Iqbal1808]

the WM covers half of the screen it sucks so bad lol

[@meltfire6]

@@Iqbal1808 are we talking about filmora 9?

[@Iqbal1808]

@@meltfire6 idk

[@meltfire6]

ok

[@amazing_wolf]

very nice enough info to start out in a small amount of time you just saved my English speaking exam.

[@abigailspencer6098]

Thank you SO MUCH. This video is so detailed and well done!

[@bai]

You're very welcome!

[@kyro2292]

whenever i open shotcut, the timeline isnt fully there

[@EmmsterGD]

I have the same problem

[@topmansquad9558]

There are some dots above the timeline, pull it up to use the timeline

[@adamstankus6205]

same

[@zyn4947]

when i open i cant see the timeline i mean i can but its really small

[@Besherba]

zyn you can drag the little dots up

[@eliastta437]

Same

[@jadalanews5333]

We have just started the KZbin channel this is very helpful! Thank you

[@sizzleserveyum]

This 10 mins video just saved me. My Adobe Premiere is not working so I needed something quick to adapt to. If you know Adobe Premiere, then this is easy to navigate. If you watched the entire video this will help you. Thank you so much for making this video!

[@bai]

Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@bullrancher6508]

when i split the clip how do i zoom in the second clip not the whole thing also i didnt watch the full thing XD

[@davidconnelly]

Who would've guessed Bill Clinton would know so much about video editing?

[@glenesis]

This installed tonight with stock Ubuntu Studio on my 2012 MacBook Pro. I'm excited to try it! It made no sense to me poking around in it - so thanks for this amazing tutorial!

[@bai]

Glad it helped!

[@garbagecollectorvideos]

Thanks for creating this vid. This is a really good starting point on how to use Shotcut!

[@bai]

You're welcome!