Excellent, clear and well-laid out tutorial. No distractions, no overblown ego, just the facts in an accessible manner. Thank you, and I hope you will consider adding more of these.
Dr. Wakefield, I'm just writing to compliment you on your to-the-point narration and overall presentation on both Shotcut videos you did. I'm familiar with a number of video editors as well as techniques that you cover. I watched the first video out of curiosity but your style hooked me into watching Part 2, as well. I wish all creators took a leaf from your book and simply stuck to the point of their video instead of doing close-ups of their faces, blaring bad background music, or having cartoons of monkeys dance across the screen. I hope your CZcams output increases; they need more Creators like you.
@@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 ... :)
I used marker (m) and go to next marker (>) to set all the keyframe at the same timestamp without having to click / count. Very useful and nice tutorial. Thanks.
Love this! I got lost many many times, but kept rewinding and watching over and over until my poor slow mind could grasp the complexities. Thank you for this great tutorial.
Very cool, your 2 tutorials on this are probably the best for this program. Don't get me wrong, there are some real good ones but they aren't as easy to follow. You should def keep going with these
Great tutorial. What's really needed is some kind of scripting language that allows these kinds of things to be automated. So you can just enter the two pieces of text, and maybe choose a color and duration, and it builds the rest automatically.
Your flow of explaining things is so good I am going to check out a lot of your videos in future, comeone people sad that 2.8K views and hardly people cares to leave a thumbs up ??
Thanks for the affirmation! I do have a couple of other Shotcut videos that I'd like to make ... but I don't seem to be able to produce them very quickly. (This annoying distraction called work that gets in the way ... !)
@@andrewwakefield4519 Ha ha, same for me I want to be expert and get better at editing my videos but then there' only 24 hrs in a day and we have to Work also 😆
I hear you. I don't have enough experience with other NLVEs to say whether any of them include these particular effects. The problem is, there are so many creative ways to make text and images move and merge, that I would think it is impossible to include them all. Thus, sooner or later one is going to wind up "building" up an effect using the nuts-and-bolts tools provided.
Hi Andrew, I have just subscribed as I really like the video style tuition on this subject. One thing puzzles me is on how you know the correct text box size for the font size you are using. I find that I have to use guess work? Kind regards Paul from 48-SPOKES
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. czcams.com/video/BuDpi0h1RQM/video.html
hi, if I'm making a video in which several frames are joined and I want to create a new text and line for each one - do I have to create a new video track for each line? thank you for the great guide
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 ... :)
I am new to all this, so can you explain or point me to the correct video. When I have put a title on, how do I save it, to use in front of a video, or can I use this system to place titles onto a video?
Hi Ronecc. Typically you would use this approach within the Shotcut editor, but instead of the background picture that I have used above, you would place your own video. Of course, you could use the Shotcut editor to make any other edits or overlays to your video - for example, you might use this same approach to generate titles for different people or places in the video. It is possible to generate just the title sequence as a separate video and then merge it with another video, but that requires some additional work. First and foremost, you would not put a picture behind the title; instead you would use a plain background that you can be "erased" when you merge it with the other video. There are various ways to do that, and this topic is more than I can cover in a comment; if you are interested in this, you might post a question in the Shotcut forum, and I guarantee you will get lots of help. Note that when you merge a title video with another video, you would still need to use either a video editor such as Shotcut, or a video compositor such as OBS.
@@andrewwakefield4519 Thanks I did have a quick try and wrote a title direct on the beginning of a video. It did work, all I have to do now is perfect it.
Hi. Does anyone know why I can't insert value for position/size/X of the Color box? I type value in the box and pres ENTER but it resets value to the value that it got from dragging it.
@@andrewwakefield4519 Sorry I was referring to the Part 1. When you select Open other -> Color and than you use filter Crop. When I try to change Position and Size in the Filter (Crop) the value that I type in this boxes (Position, Size) disappears/sets to the previous value (I can change the size of the box by dragging it) when I press enter.
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. :)
@@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 1920x1080@29.997 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!
Excellent, clear and well-laid out tutorial. No distractions, no overblown ego, just the facts in an accessible manner. Thank you, and I hope you will consider adding more of these.
Thank you! I am (slowly) working on a tutorial on "portrait" videos and video modes.
Dr. Wakefield, I'm just writing to compliment you on your to-the-point narration and overall presentation on both Shotcut videos you did. I'm familiar with a number of video editors as well as techniques that you cover. I watched the first video out of curiosity but your style hooked me into watching Part 2, as well. I wish all creators took a leaf from your book and simply stuck to the point of their video instead of doing close-ups of their faces, blaring bad background music, or having cartoons of monkeys dance across the screen. I hope your CZcams output increases; they need more Creators like you.
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 ... :)
I used marker (m) and go to next marker (>) to set all the keyframe at the same timestamp without having to click / count.
Very useful and nice tutorial. Thanks.
Thanks! Markers were not yet available when I made this tutorial; glad to hear that they worked well with this procedure!
this guy is a pro teacher.
What a lovely compliment - thank you!
This is just great. Well explained steps of a text effect everybody need at some point in their videos.
Thanks! I hope it adds another tool to Shotcut users' arsenal.
Love this! I got lost many many times, but kept rewinding and watching over and over until my poor slow mind could grasp the complexities. Thank you for this great tutorial.
You are welcome!
Fantastic videos. Thank you for the tutorial. You have the voice of an old-school instructional video narrator, its perfect.
What a lovely compliment - thank you!
Thanks very much for this two tutorials.
You are welcome!
Thank you Andrew for sharing and explaining in such a clear way. Awesome work!
Thank you for the feedback!
Well explained. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding and clear tutorial. Thank you so much for this ! :-)
You are most welcome!
Very important animation explained in a top-notch professional way! Thumbs up!
Thanks!
Very cool, your 2 tutorials on this are probably the best for this program. Don't get me wrong, there are some real good ones but they aren't as easy to follow. You should def keep going with these
Thank you! I definitely plan to do more.
Excellent and very well paced (which is often v hard to achieve)
Thank you so much!
Clear and easy to follow, great narration style, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you Andrew.
You are welcome!
Thank you . its very helpful for learn. thank you very much
I am glad it was helpful!
Thank you sooo much. GREAT tutorial, M
You are so welcome!
Great tutorial. What's really needed is some kind of scripting language that allows these kinds of things to be automated. So you can just enter the two pieces of text, and maybe choose a color and duration, and it builds the rest automatically.
I have suggested something similar in the Shotcut forum!
Your flow of explaining things is so good I am going to check out a lot of your videos in future, comeone people sad that 2.8K views and hardly people cares to leave a thumbs up ??
Thanks for the affirmation! I do have a couple of other Shotcut videos that I'd like to make ... but I don't seem to be able to produce them very quickly. (This annoying distraction called work that gets in the way ... !)
@@andrewwakefield4519 Ha ha, same for me I want to be expert and get better at editing my videos but then there' only 24 hrs in a day and we have to Work also 😆
@@WORLDTHEWAYISEE :)
Perfectly explained and demonstrated!
Thank you!
I did not search for this but I enjoyed watching it!!! Great tutorial, thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
My man, you are a magician on shotcut
Many thanks, but I think I am only an apprentice!
Amazing step by step tutorial! Tks!!!
You are most welcome!
Looking forward to have this as an standard "ready to use" filter in shotcout instead of doing so many steps by my own!
I hear you. I don't have enough experience with other NLVEs to say whether any of them include these particular effects. The problem is, there are so many creative ways to make text and images move and merge, that I would think it is impossible to include them all. Thus, sooner or later one is going to wind up "building" up an effect using the nuts-and-bolts tools provided.
Really thanks for this tutorial 🙏
You are welcome!
Thank you for such a nice tutorial
You are most welcome!
Thanks, you helped me alot
Glad to hear that!
Nice, nice, nice! Thank you!
You are most welcome!
Perfect explanation. Thank you.
Thanks!
U r a great Mentor plz make few ones of shotcut
Thanks! I have a couple more Shotcut tutorials that I am working on. Stay tuned!
nice! learned something new today, thank you
Glad you liked it!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Very helpful and well presented
Thanks!
Hello Sir, Thanks for your tutorial
You are welcome!
Great Tutorial, THX !
Thanks!
Superb !
Thank you!
really useful.
I'm glad it was helpful!
Thank you, very well explained 😊
Thanks!
Hi Andrew,
I have just subscribed as I really like the video style tuition on this subject. One thing puzzles me is on how you know the correct text box size for the font size you are using. I find that I have to use guess work?
Kind regards Paul from 48-SPOKES
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.
czcams.com/video/BuDpi0h1RQM/video.html
@@itsalldoable Love it! I'm so glad my tutorial was helpful.
@@andrewwakefield4519 It really was, thank you so much 👍👍
hi, if I'm making a video in which several frames are joined and I want to create a new text and line for each one - do I have to create a new video track for each line? thank you for the great guide
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 ... :)
I am new to all this, so can you explain or point me to the correct video. When I have put a title on, how do I save it, to use in front of a video, or can I use this system to place titles onto a video?
Hi Ronecc. Typically you would use this approach within the Shotcut editor, but instead of the background picture that I have used above, you would place your own video. Of course, you could use the Shotcut editor to make any other edits or overlays to your video - for example, you might use this same approach to generate titles for different people or places in the video.
It is possible to generate just the title sequence as a separate video and then merge it with another video, but that requires some additional work. First and foremost, you would not put a picture behind the title; instead you would use a plain background that you can be "erased" when you merge it with the other video. There are various ways to do that, and this topic is more than I can cover in a comment; if you are interested in this, you might post a question in the Shotcut forum, and I guarantee you will get lots of help. Note that when you merge a title video with another video, you would still need to use either a video editor such as Shotcut, or a video compositor such as OBS.
@@andrewwakefield4519 Thanks I did have a quick try and wrote a title direct on the beginning of a video. It did work, all I have to do now is perfect it.
I hope my 100th subscription is a motivation for your next works :).
It is! Many thanks.
Hi. Does anyone know why I can't insert value for position/size/X of the Color box? I type value in the box and pres ENTER but it resets value to the value that it got from dragging it.
Hi andr,
I am not sure which box you are looking at. Are you working with a particular filter?
@@andrewwakefield4519 Sorry I was referring to the Part 1. When you select Open other -> Color and than you use filter Crop. When I try to change Position and Size in the Filter (Crop) the value that I type in this boxes (Position, Size) disappears/sets to the previous value (I can change the size of the box by dragging it) when I press enter.
Is it possible to save this as a template to use anywhere in the project without creating keyframes etc?
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 1920x1080@29.997 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!