====== Editing videos using Shotcut ======

This short video tutorial (5 minutes) shows how to prepare a video lecture for upload by normalising the audio level and applying fade-in/out to the start and end.

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The Shotcut software (Windows, MacOS, Linux) can be downloaded from: [[http://shotcut.org | shotcut.org]]

Summary of steps:

  * Open Shotcut.
  * Drag the original video file onto the Playlist.
  * Drag the video from the Playlist onto the Timeline.
  * Select the clip in the timeline and in the Filters panel add Normalize: Two Pass.
  * Click Analyze.
  * Set the desired target volume, e.g., -19 LUFS (Loudness Units relative to Full Scale).
  * In the Filters panel add: Fade In Audio, Fade Out Audio, Fade Out Video.
  * In the Export panel click on Export.