in this video i show you how to delete projects in Shotcut
hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i show you how
to use open source software today we're looking at deleting projects in Shotcut
so to demonstrate this let's open up Shotcut and create a new project as you can see i've
already created one project called test i'm just going to create another called test2
It will open up a blank project for me if i go over to the
file explorer i've got my first test project there and then my new test project just here
now the way i create projects is that i go into that project and now i'll paste all
of my associated files into this location here so any videos i'll put into the project folder
like so if you don't keep your files all in the same project folder then deleting files later on
can be quite difficult to do there are examples where you do not want to keep your project files
in your project folder and that might be if you're sharing a file so for example if i was using this
bicycle file throughout three or four different videos i might want to keep it in a central
location so all of my files and my project folders can aim towards it but they won't if i deleted
that project it won't delete the file so there are examples of when you don't want to use this method
but generally speaking i would imagine you wanting to use your video footage for one video
and this is the method that i would use to create the video so then you know all of your video files
are in the same location and the correct location so if you want to delete edit move or do anything
else with your project you know exactly where the files are now you'll have seen all of this before
but into the playlist i'll drag two videos and now i can start using the videos in my project
okay so let's imagine that's the video that i wanted to create
i've now saved it and all of the files
are in my one location under my project folder if i come out of Shotcut and go back into Shotcut
you'll now see i've got on my recent projects test2 and test test2 is the one that i've just
created and test is another one that i had previously created for this demonstration
i can now double click go straight back into the project that i just created but now let's
imagine we want to delete the project if you've created all of your files in the same location
the best way to do this is just to go to that file location and delete the whole folder
you'll have to have Shotcut closed in order to do that
and then it will delete now if i go back into Shotcut as you can see test two is still there
in the recent projects list it still thinks that that project exists if I open it there's down here
failed to open what it doesn't do is remove it to remove it from this list come up to settings
go to clear recent on exit and then when you close Shotcut and reopen it again your recent
projects pane will now be clear it will also remove projects that you had available to you
previously if you want to load those back into the recent projects pane click into settings
take off clear on recent otherwise it's going to keep on clearing it every time you close Shotcut
and then open up the file that might want to be used again now if you go Shotcut and reopen it
your quick link has come back you do need to open each one of your projects for it to reappear into
the recent projects list and depending on how many projects you have you may not want to do
too many of them but if you've just got one that you're going to need to use or a couple then that
can be quite helpful and the main point of doing that is to clear off deleted ones that you can no
longer access so you're not getting confused between different project folders so i hope
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