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How To Create A New Project In Shotcut Video Editor | Shotcut Tutorial
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Apr 12, 2025
Are you new to shotcut?, in this tutorial i show you how you can create or start a New Project In Shotcut Video Editor WATCH: https://youtu.be/0UNXWrICy4s Shotcut is a free to use open source video editing program that you can download and use on your Windows computer or Macbook to edit high quality videos while offline and download them. Download Shotcut today: https://www.shotcut.org/ #shotcut #videoediting
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in this video I'm going to show you how
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you can start a new project in shortcut
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video editor So if you go ahead and open
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your shortcut video editing program you
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land to this page So here we can go
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ahead and create our new project Now
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there's one thing you have to note or to
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do before you create a new project is to
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select the project folder This is where
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after you have created your project your
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downloads will be saved So to dedicate a
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specific folder where your projects will
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be saved Go ahead and tap on this
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project folder And if you tap here it
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will take you to your computer and then
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from here you can select a folder or a
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place where you want your shortcut
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downloads to go after you've downloaded
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your project So if you want to go under
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downloads just go ahead and select
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downloads and then each and every time
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you download a complete project from
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shortcut it will be saved here For my
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case I have a folder called videos and I
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like all my downloads from shortcut to
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go to videos So I'll select that and
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then tap on select folder And as you can
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see it has been selected and this folder
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is on my desktop Great Now now to begin
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a new project go ahead and give your
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project a name And you can see we have
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project name here So I'll go ahead and
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give my project a name I'll give it my
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test project So that is my name and then
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once you're done go ahead and tap on
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start and this will give you a blank
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page and now it's time to go ahead and
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add images and videos in shortcut Now to
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add images you have to add it and
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playlist So if you look here you can see
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I have a playlist here and I'll just go
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ahead and drop my videos my files my
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music and everything even audio files we
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drop them under playlist For your case
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if you don't see this playlist here
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maybe as by default it is set to filters
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like this You can drop your files and
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videos under filters You have to go
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ahead and look for playlist option which
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is on this top bar And here it is So if
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you go ahead and tap on it we shall have
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now an empty playlist that we can add
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our files So I'll go ahead and add files
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And for instance and I have quite a
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number of files that I want to add So I
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want to add this video And to add the
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video just drag and drop it here and it
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will be added Next I'll go ahead and add
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another one and it will be added You can
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add here as many files as you can by
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just dragging and dropping them here If
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you have audio files we can also go
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ahead and look for audio files Just go
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ahead and add it here So if you're not
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comfortable by this arrangement maybe
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you want them to be in a list format you
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can go ahead and toggle here This view
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icon will give you options to change the
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format in which your files will be
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arranged in playlist If you want list
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view you can just go ahead and tap on
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list view and then your files will be
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arranged in form of a list You can also
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choose view as details and then this
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will also arrange them this way with the
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details So for my case I like it to be
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in this format Now the next thing is to
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edit your videos and your files that you
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have just added in shortcut To start
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editing your videos you have to add your
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videos to timeline We can't edit from
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here This is the timeline and you can
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simply add your videos under this
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timeline before you can begin editing So
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if I go ahead and take one I'll just
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drag and drop it here and it will be
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added to my timeline If I want to add
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another one I can just go ahead and as
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well add it here and it will be added
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And I can move it to wherever I want so
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that they are on the same layer That way
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I'll have added my videos And now from
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here I can start editing from here So I
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can cut cut also This section I can even
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delete and so on If I want to add this
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is an audio layer This is a music file
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can just go ahead and right click on an
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empty space here and then select track
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operation and select audio track This
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will go ahead and add another layer here
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Now I can add my audio track If I go
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ahead and release you can see now I have
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an audio track here And if I play you
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can hear the
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sound That is the sound from my audio
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track If I want to cut it here I can add
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the audio to end here I just go ahead
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and cut it So that is it So that's how
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you create a new project in shortcut
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video editor If you have any other
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question kindly let me know in the
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comment section Otherwise if this video
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is helpful to you kindly hit the like
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button and subscribe to this channel to
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support me Thank you for watching and
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let's meet in the next video