in this video i show you how to add images to the Shotcut video editor if this video helps
you please remember to like subscribe and leave a comment down below hi everyone my name is Joe
and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i help you learn open source software today we're going
to look over adding images into the Shotcut video editor so the very first thing i'm going to do is
just create a new project i'm just going to call it test and put it into my normal videos folder
now this is the default layout and the setup for Shotcut so once that is created click onto your
playlist you should see a empty playlist option over here and then navigate in an
explorer folder to your images that you want to drag in now I've got some jpgs and you just
select and drag they'll add into the playlist here and I've also got some pngs
so the difference between a jpeg and a png is a png can have a transparent background
the jpegs won't have a transparent background so depending on what type of image you import
into your video will depend on how it displays in Shotcut so just to make this
a little bit clearer i'm going to also add in a video example where are they in here
and then i'm going to drag the video into my timeline
okay so if i play that now it's just going to play the normal video
what i want to do is put some images over the top of the video so i'm going to go to
track operations and add a video track and now i'm going to add dog into the top layer
and as you can see the image applies over the top i can move this around on the timeline to wherever
i want it to be and i can extend or shorten it as i need to so first of all that's pretty good but
let's imagine we didn't want all of this white space around now with a jpeg there's not much
you can do about that but with a png there is so let me get rid of the dog file and let me put in
the cars file now as you can see i have trimmed around all of the cars already so now you've got
a white or transparent background and then just the images on top so hopefully that makes sense
let's just delete that once more and then add in the car jpeg the car jpeg means there's no
transparency and then let's add in a flower png which means there is transparency
they're the major two file types that you'll probably be using in Shotcut and there are others
available you could pretty much drag anything in and it will work but if you if you stick to jpegs
for full images and pngs for transparent backgrounds then you're pretty much set to go
now before we finish let's work out how we can actually resize these because it's
great having the image on the screen but actually that's probably too big for what you want
so let's work out how we do that the thing we need to do is make sure you've got the
image selected in your timeline so not up here it could be anything up here but in your timeline you
want it selected here and then go to filters and click the plus and then search for size
you will have size position and rotate pop up click onto it
and now you'll get these options here and as you can see you've got this block
over the image now you can use this to resize and this button here in the middle to drag
or you can use the settings over here to be more accurate if you need to have them at a
certain dimension and from here you can also add in transitions and other effects so your images
can do different things and even move across the screen and stuff but we'll go into that in
another video so i hope you found this helpful and please remember to like subscribe and leave
a comment if you have if you've had any issues or anything that i've missed off then please let
me know i'll make another video on it otherwise thanks very much and i'll see you in the next one
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