Re:Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
by rchaud on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:45PM
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I used both Shotcut and Davinci Resolve on MacOS. Shotcut provided the perfect amount of middle ground between iMovie and all the power user stuff in Davinci. More importantly, Shotcut worked well on my 2014 Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. Davinci is probably the better software but it ran very slowly once you added a couple of video/audio/photo layers. And the storage it ate up inside project files to store the cache was unbelievable. 30GB+ for for a 10 min 1080p video.
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Re:Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
by _gabe_ on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:15PM
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When did you last use DaVinci? I've been using it for the past year and a half, and my project files are all under 10MB. I just checked my most recent video (around 30 minutes of 4K video), and the project file was 5.77MB
Edit: I just opened the project up because I was curious about the RAM and vRAM. When it's idle it took 1.5GB of RAM and 1GB of vRAM. Scrolling through the project very quickly pushed the RAM up to 4.5GB and vRAM up to 2GB.
Re:Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
by linsomniac on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:15PM
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Reluctant to say "throw hardware at it", but I got one of the new M1 MBPs, my first Mac ever, and I can throw multi-cam 4K30 2/3 cams around with no optimized media, and it basically always runs without dropped frames, just using the H264/265 media generated by the cameras. I got the 2TB storage, because on my previous laptop I always was eating up so much space with optimized media, but it's way overkill now that I don't need that. But I didn't know that going into it.