 Recently, I had a problem with Cayden Live and it was a big problem. It crashed a lot and that is not a great experience when you are editing a video for like a half an hour. You've done all this work and then all of a sudden the app just goes away. You have to hope and pray that it will recover your work. Now I've got really good at saving my work after every time I've made like a cut or something like that so I was hitting the CTRL-S keyboard shortcut all the time but you shouldn't have to do that. I mean you probably should do that but you shouldn't have to do that because you shouldn't have to expect that your app is going to crash. So Cayden Live has been a pain in my ass for a couple of weeks now. So I decided I was going to move away, you know like I'm done with this nonsense I'm going to go through and find myself a better video editor. And the first one that I tried is shot cut. So I've been using shot cut now for a couple of weeks and I have some thoughts. So let's go ahead and jump in. So this is what shot cut looks like out of the box. I've done no customizations really in terms of UI. Now you can go through and edit the like the windows and the modules and stuff just like you can in Cayden Live. I found that it wasn't quite as good at moving stuff around as Cayden Live and so just like Cayden Live that like the grab handles to make things bigger and smaller aren't always the easiest to see. So it works best if you're using a dark thing like this you can actually see some of these things where you can go through and you can drag in things to make them bigger and smaller. But on the white themes these aren't as easy to see. So that's what that was my first problem now. I'm not in love with the UI but then I wasn't in love with the UI of Cayden Live either. I was able to get past the I know this kind of feels very I don't know the word it's not a very good designed app or a very well designed app I should say. It just it sometimes feels like they were trying to do this with like touch support enable something like these huge s icons and stuff just I don't know it's weird. The UI is just not something that I was really all that interested in. Now that being said it wasn't unusable in terms of interface you know it's I was able to use it and be happy using it for a while. So it's not like the UI was so horrendous it sent me running off in the other direction that's just it didn't do that. So that's the first thing that I had to get over the second thought I had was that this is not a great multitrack editor. Now I think that's because it's meant to be a linear track editor like you're supposed to like cut things up and put them all on one line. Now you can do multitrack you like I could go through here and do track operations add audio track and then I can go through and drag my video or my audio to here if I wanted to do so and then you know that's fine and that's the way I've been working because I always have multiple tracks. I always record these videos in OBS and I also record the audio in audacity that gives me a backup of the audio just in case OBS craps out or audacity craps out I always have some way of having the audio recorded. It's just the way I've always been doing things and it's the way I probably always will do things just because it just seems to work for me. But shotgun does not do multitrack stuff well. So in my editing process I'd go through and line up the audio and the video just like you normally would I do this with you know claps and then I would remove the audio from the main track here so you can do that by doing more detached audio and then you get another audio track and then I can just go through and delete this now being able to detach audio is a key feature for any video editor and it's one that I would definitely always have to have and it's there. The problem comes is when I said I go through and deleted this and I've synced these things up that's just I mean this isn't synced up but it doesn't really matter. If I wanted to go through and select both of these you can't do that you can't select both of them and do cuts you can't group things and cut. So if I wanted to group these things like if I want if I would in Caden live after I've detached the audio from the main clip and then gone through and added the audio separately that I wanted to use I could go through and regroup them that way when I made a cut because I wanted to cut this I could in Caden live that would cut both the audio and the video in the exact same spot in shot cut you can't group things together so I have to cut these twice so I have to select this cut this and then go up here hit the shortcut key again and then cut it again so I have to it doubles the amount of work I have to have that was by far the biggest pain I had using shot cut now I understand it's not like it wasn't the end of the world like I could do this and I did do this for the last two weeks but it's just one of those things like like I want to be able to group the stuff and sometimes I got to the point where I hit S is the key binding to do a cut where the the line here is right and sometimes S and cut the video and then I let it be playing working to my workflow and then I hit S again or I have forgotten that I didn't actually cut the audio I just cut the video and I'd have to go back through and try to line these up precisely because there's no real snapping there is snapping in the the this application but there's not snapping for the timeline scrubber and I so I'd have to align those things up exactly in order to cut the thing that I forgot to cut that's just a pain in the ass and it's not something that I could see myself being okay with long-term I'm not a professional video editor by any means I'm not really reliant on a software being able to do a ton of fancy things of fun ton of fancy transitions and stuff like that there are like four or five things that I just needed to do and this is one of those four or five things and it's not there so between the lack of really good multi-track editing and the lack of grouping shot cut kind of wrote itself out of its place in my life and the other things that I need to do like for example I have these two green screen clips here they're the little Rollins you'll see at the bottom to subscribe to the channel and to support us on patreon patreon.com slash Lennox cast and shot cut does support these well and it actually supports them better I feel than Kaden live does so I could go through and add another clip here and drag these over and basically what you do is then you select this and hit the filters thing and then you add the filter and you're gonna search for chroma in this case and you're gonna use chroma simple and then you can go through and do the color that you need and it would work just fine if you haven't subscribed we just hit 2000 subscribers and I'm super excited about that now I like that way of doing things because it allows you to go through and put the filter for the chroma on just that clip so I could go through and add to that clip I could add it to the subscribe clip as well and it just affects those clips that means I can use that track for other things as well without having the chroma affected so in Kaden live at least as far as I'm aware you have to go through and add the chroma to the entire track and that's not great so like I said that's as far as I'm aware it's the way I've always been doing it it's the way I learned from a YouTube video to it so you know that's just the way Kaden live does things now that's not a big deal because Kaden live allows you to do a ton of multi-track things a lot better than shot cut ever will so it's not a huge deal when I had to add an extra track to add the end scene or whatever because it's just you know add an extra track and put it in there whereas this it just doesn't feel conducive to actually doing multi-track editing so another thing that I like about shot cut is that when I've gone through and created a let's just say here I've cut I've cut this I've done a cut here and I've done a cut here so I've now cut both of these things if I wanted to go through into a cool transition like a fade in Kaden live I'd have to go through and do this thing here with the with the pull tabs or whatever to do the fades and you can do that with shot cut as well and I'll talk a bit more about that here in a second but what's really cool is I can actually go through and overlap these and it will go through and do a fade you know by itself equally fade so far I go through I'm just gonna go ahead and mute this here actually I think that just makes it louder I don't see if it actually go through and show you is NC spot so NC spot so I didn't actually go through it and choose a good spot for that because they're actually there's actually no difference between here and here but they're actually the same image basically but basically what that does is go it goes through and that does a cross fade it's really cool I really like that the other thing I liked about the fades so like just if I line these back up here and I say I wanted to fade between this one and this one as you can see as I drag this fade thing here it actually tells you how long the fade is so like that's one second fought 1.5 seconds I think is the way that is right 1.05 seconds and you can do the same thing with fades that way you can go through and make your fades exactly the same so that's something that Kate in live doesn't do when you can live you do the the fades it's just a handle and you have to kind of guess exactly how the fade and fade how long the fade in fade out things actually last now I know that information is actually somewhere in the UI but the UIF came lines kind of you know bloated so finding is kind of a pain the butt now that was a lot of stuff on on shot cut now my overall thoughts on it are that it's okay the lack of the ability to actually go through and group audio and video together at least that I've been able to find out you remember I used it for two weeks and couldn't actually find it but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist it just means that I couldn't find it so if it's there you know it just means I missed it though but the seeming lack of that is a big deal for me and it's it's the it's a deal breaker because I go through and I always have an audio and a video track I need to go through and group those together so that I can cut them always that they precise spot equally every time and I don't have to go through and sometimes accidentally you know forget to cut one part of it and then have to go back and try to line them up exactly precisely or whatever and try to get them to actually go through and be perfect now obviously I say perfect but none of my videos are perfect but I would at least like it so that when I cut the video and edit audio they don't somehow get out of sync that you know that'd be the most annoying thing ever so I can't use shot cut for that reason now if anybody knows how to group a thing tracks together in shot cut and I just missed it let me know in the comments 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