Tips on How to Speed Up Cinematic Editing & Reduce Lag with Proxy Editing in the New Shotcut Update

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Your settings completely if not mostly fixed the issues I was having, now I can ACTUALLY move on to learning to edit with the software. If anyone questions the legitimacy of my comment, I am indeed a real person who actually had their problem fixed because of this video.

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[@BlokewithaBear]

Excellent and informative video. I didn't understand how proxy files worked but now I do so I'll give it a go. Thanks.

[@BenEspanto]

Good luck! Hopefully it makes editing smoother

[@BenEspanto]

If you need to do final edits using the full-sized videos, just uncheck proxy. I also have an old method of using proxy files. Comment if you want to see that video

[@souravbanerjee2387]

Of course, yes! Thank you.

[@BenEspanto]

@@souravbanerjee2387 I actually made that comment months ago. Shotcut's proxy functionality is much more efficient and the old way is harder and you would need to know code

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[@cocomovicc820]

Among those many good films in Shotcut tutorials, I like yours the most. You are a good teacher! From your tutorials, I can learn how and why in different Shotcut technics. Unfortunately, I am not a good English speaker express my doubt and more questions but just download the videos on your channel and watch them repeatly. Thank you very much for your effort and time! Bless! From Louis, Taiwan

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[@cocomovicc820]

Thanks Ben! I'm just a beginer of learing Shotcut,so not be able to pose proper idea yet, but I'll get there. BTW, working on color grading,hue adjusting all that… happen to know you have LUT,could you please let me have it with much appreciation. please send it to my [e-mail] again!

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[@FootballsDomain]

Dude you are awesome! This is the best thing that has ever happened to me in video editing. Shotcut was so laggy before, but with this, it is actually fun to edit with! This is the most helpful and awesome Shotcut video ever, and it is a total game changer!!!

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[@fluke2624]

Just started using shotcut and hated how buggy and jumpy it was in the edit... Not anymore! Thanks Ben!

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[@houstonfirefox]

Having your proxies on a dedicated SSD would smooth them even more I imagine. Great video!

[@BenEspanto]

Correct. Every little thing helps

[@itsalldoable]

Hi Ben, I have just run all my proxy files for the video I am currently editing and the default storage is a Proxy folder in the original storage location where the video you are saving is stored. So it will be quite easy to delete that folder when the job has rendered and completed. I am looking forward to seeing an improvement in the speed of my editing. I really like Shotcut and appreciate you taking the time to explain things so clearly. Kind regards Paul from 48SPOKES (UK)

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[@sallylester4079]

This tutorial has been incredibly helpful to me. You teach so well, you go at the right speed so I can follow you and when I am doing my editing, I bring this video up to guide me through. Superb, thank you.

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[@dirokiwi]

Thank you so much dude amazing video! At first I was wondering why you needed to make a 15 min video just to show us which checkbox to click, but ended up wathcing the whole video just because of how well you explained how it works!!! :DDDDDDDDD

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Broo I dont now how you do it. Thank you so much for making this video because it helped me a LOT. I definetly have a LOT of difference in tearms of laging. Right now not even with google pages on I get lag. Thank you so much much love from Serbia!

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The difference is like night and day. I'm glad I could help

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Thank you that preview scaling tip is wonderful!

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Another nice tut, i needed this because i have no idea what a lot of these setting mean, what they do or what effect they have on my video. thanks

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I know I’m late but just the first minute fixed everything for me! Thankyou so much

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WOW!!! Really a game changer! I just did a quick test following this video, and totally blew my mind! Thanks so much! (y)

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[@YASCSailingEsperanza]

Gamechanger functionality. Thanks for the great intro!

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[@chaddernesto9308]

this really helps me a lot especially when doing a school video projects! ❤

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[@Namelessg-no6vy]

im learning alot from your videos.. i never used proxy before. i never even heard of it. Thank you.

[@BenEspanto]

Oh, it's life-changing! Now my mid-tier computer can handle anything, even editing 4K videos! Glad you liked it

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Most enjoyable shotcut video I have seen. Thank you for the great hints.

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THANK YOU for this video! I keep seeing the word proxy here and there, but you finally explained it! you def got my sub and like

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[@halnytravel.7274]

great man!! thankssss proxy option does the job

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[@Martijnwat]

I bought a new laptop for making 4k video's. Now i see it isnt necesarry... But hey, rendering is fast as hell right now! Love it. Thx for all your videos!

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[@FragThePlanetIndustries]

Good explanation for a nifty feature. Hadn't considered the impact of previewing and processing source files and that a quality reduction would be acceptable in the editing stage. This is a game changer feature especially if you've got a ramdisk for the proxies.

[@BenEspanto]

I have an ultra-slow computer. With these settings and technique, I've had no problems with 4K edits.

[@DetectDigSmile]

You have help me a lot with my edits. Thank you.👍

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[@pbcreative6388]

This video has been incredibly helpful, I thought my new computer wasn't as good as I thought it was! Until I saw your video, adjusted the settings as you suggest. Many thanks! Just subscribed too! 🙂👍

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@@BenEspanto it actually helped a great deal! One of those occasions where it's easy once you know how, and your video told me how! 🙂👍

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Great!

[@bobsnyder287]

Thanks Ben, will try what you suggested, I really appreciate your help. Bob

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No worries. Hope that works

[@JodyMcDonald]

Thanks! I have the new settings saved and will be trying it soon!

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[@JohnAlesi]

Great job and well presented. Thanks!

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[@madsbechmadsen]

Thanks - so usefull - new to shotcut. Gonna try this proxy .. thing.

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this is really great thank you so much bro, you save my life.

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[@giotto4321]

Looks like this'll be a bit of game changer, at least for me, so thanks for the huge tip! I don't use a particularly fast laptop for editing and I always suffer from laggy playback in preview and editing. I have a couple of questions I hope you could answer please: - When starting a new project, I rarely know exactly which video clips I will be using. So once I've edited the files I initially chose but then decide to add other (original resolution) files I want to use, will the fact I have it set to use Proxy files automatically convert these hi-res files to proxies? There's a warning window shown at 6:36 mins that says "Do you want to create missing proxies for every file in this project?" - does that mean the programme automatically does so for any new files I want to add mid-project? - My second question is at the same warning window, can you explain what it means "You must reopen your project after all proxy jobs are finished". I maybe missed it but I don't think you made reference to this when you exported your project as the final .mp4 file. Thanks.

[@BenEspanto]

1. yes 2. Just close out shotcut and launch again

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This was so so so helpful - Thank you!!!

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You did a great job of explaining. Out of all the videos this is the best!

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Thanks Ben - excellent videos!

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[@Alivdfpv]

if I use proxy files, keyframes and the Speed: Forward Only filter, and then turn off the proxie files. then my keyframes disappear. That's a problem because I can't do good color grading Do you have an idea how the keyframes are retained from switching to proxy and back?

[@BenEspanto]

I don't know because that's never happened to me. Everytime I turn off proxies I still have the keyframes

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[@mikedehooghblackflagracephotos]

COOL BEANS. My proxies are currently being rendered: 105 files so it's gonna be awhile. In the meantime figured I'd drop a thank you and check out your other vids and subscribe while I'm at it.

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[@GMasterMonkey]

proxy, big game changer! thnx for the video.

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Amazing right? Thanks for watching!

[@justatadofinsanity4762]

Honestly just your settings made my preview speed up and thank god 😭 I was gonna give up completely on this software. But I do need to ask if dropping the frame rate in the preview affects the finish product?

[@BenEspanto]

Not the frame rate but the resolution, yes

[@Franco_ink]

God bless you my friend, you help me so much😄

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Made editing so much easier, thanks

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[@Whogirl42]

This looks so cool! Can't wait to try it- I love Shotcut but the lagging drives me mad. Quick question- is it possible to implement proxy mode on a project I'm in the middle of making? Like, will it change the tracks on the timeline into proxy versions of themselves?

[@BenEspanto]

Yes it is possible. It will change it so that you can edit smaller files. Before you start, just to be safe, save an original version of the MLT file

[@Whogirl42]

@@BenEspanto why is saving an original version necessary?

[@jojofabricante7742]

Thank you, big help!

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[@Jerez448]

Excellent video. In the "interpolation" box the option you choose affects the final exported video? or it only affects the editing of the video? as I see you chose "nearest neighbor" and Shotcut has by default the "Bilinear" option.

[@BenEspanto]

These are for video processing when exported

[@Jammet]

@@BenEspanto No, they're just for the preview, and the performance hit there should be minimal. bilinear filtering is a thing from the mid-90s :3.

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Hi, thank you very much for making this video! It is really help me to edit my video.

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thanks a lot, the first minutes imidetly helped me!

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[@passionfly1]

I created a Proxy like you did but my 2.6 GB file did not do the proxy rendering as yours did on screen around mark 7:05 of this video. All the proxy settings are checked. I do happen to have hardware encoding checked as my CPU can assist in hardware encoding but I never saw the actual proxy rendering as you showed. What am I doing wrong? I am on version 21.08.22 of Shotcut and only using ONE file instead of many but it still should make a proxy of that one at 360p. My proxy folder on the desktop is empty =( EDIT: I think I just had to uncheck "Proxy" and recheck it and it went ahead and started creating the proxy file all over again. Very weird how it never did that the first time. Thanks for the great video btw! I am leaving what I typed originally so anyone having the same issues gets the problem and solution as one post.

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Thanks for the update

[@falcogamer5167]

very helpful!! thanks

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Great stuff, thanks! 🙏

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[@Jerez448]

Great. What program do you use to record the screen?

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OBS Studio

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[@wc11133]

Can proxies still be used if I plan to add mask transitions from the Photoshop method or does glaxinmate have to be used instead? Thank you for the video on proxies.

[@BenEspanto]

Yes you can! Proxies are just to help your computer process faster. They don't affect the final export

[@bobsnyder287]

Hi Ben Your videos have been very helpful. You talked in this video about not color grading with the proxy files. So when would you do the color grading after the files had been rendered into their original size. Thanks for all your help Bob

[@BenEspanto]

Color grading will always be last, because you need to turn off proxy in order to do color grading

[@marymcandrew7667]

Hello Ben, I was wondering this too. So do you export the proxy rendered video then bring it back into shotcut to do color editing?

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[@JohnHonan1]

Thank you, this is amazing. When your 'final video' plays it stutters a lot. Is this a side effect of using screen capture? I'm assuming the video in real life plays smoothly

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Yes, it is

[@ytown]

Amazing. Thanks!

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[@stevemcraemanager7119]

Thanks man you really helped me out. I have a gopro 360 max an was having allot of problems could you do avid on that? One thing I figured out after many hrs is you know longer have to inject Metadata . Just convert the .360 file to a mov file in the gopro player it happens automatically with the gopro exporter . Bring it into shotcut apply rectangle to hemisprical filter. It will show as a 360 vid and ready for editing an upload.

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This video has helped me alot thanks 😊

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[@americanlostinvietnam3721]

Question. What reason would you export at 75% quality as opposed to 100%? Is that just to save time for editing this video? Or are you doing that for everything? Thx

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For KZbin, it's pointless to save at 100% since it'll be compressed anyway. It's all about size of file

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Happy to help

[@Eclipsos]

Thanks for the video but I edit on mac and there is no setting option on top could you help me?

[@BenEspanto]

It should work exactly the same on Mac. Do you have the latest version of Shotcut installed?

[@bazinproduction8732]

what's that quality parameter that you chnaged before doing the export ?

[@BenEspanto]

Actually you don't need to change any settings, but on export, I usually set the % to 75%

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God Bless Meme posting caused my videos a tedious task to edit now I can actually have fun again thank you so much, what a legend

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[@RoamingDevi]

Thanks Ben for this excellent video.Need one input.If i need to do color grading then i should do it with original file first and then i will do the proxy of the fie to see the preview? Once again thanks for the nice video.

[@BenEspanto]

I would do the editing on proxy files first. Everything, including effects, transitions, etc. Do those on proxy files. When everything is done, save, then turn off proxy then color grade.

[@RoamingDevi]

@@BenEspanto Great advise Ben ..Many thanks .

[@iuciubbb]

Many thanks for this tutorial! I used OpenShot, but the experience was not that satisfying, always got buffer issues that made preview kind of painful.

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Glad it helped!

[@fictionaddiction4706]

Can you add new clips after you've enabled proxy editing , would you have to enable it again?

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Yes you can! The new clips would go through the conversion like the others before

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im doing heavy editing and this just changed my life

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That’s awesome 👏 thx so much 🔥🔥🔥

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[@merplethesheeple9127]

Thank you so much for the video! I have a question: how would we color grade with the full resolution of the video? Should we export the video in full resolution and reload it into Shotcut to color grade, or is there an easier way to do that?

[@BenEspanto]

The best thing to do is edit your entire timeline in Proxy Mode and save Color Grading until the very end. You want this to be the very last step before you export. When you're ready to color grade, turn off proxy mode and preview scaling so that you are color grading at full resolution. In this stage, Shotcut will run VERY slow, but you need to see it in full resolution so you can properly color grade.

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Thank you Ben, I just asked this question in another comment, and here you answer it!

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THANK YOU SIR...

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[@screenPhiles]

You mentioned how proxy editing makes editing faster, but you didn't mention color correction (you suggested not doing so for proxy clips because the image quality is too compromised) though what if your video required it?

[@BenEspanto]

Instructions are on this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4KVaah_jJJ2obM