Shotcut

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2018–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Shotcut, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 13 complaints

UI is laggy and slow to respond when editing video2022-06-10
Undo and redo don't work reliably, which is frustrating2022-06-10
Cropping is hard to do in the editor, forcing users to fall back to ffmpeg2022-06-09
Laggy and crashing on a high-spec machine; trouble getting clip speed adjustment to work2022-06-09
Landing page and FAQ don't explain why to switch from alternatives2022-06-09
Hard tasks are hard and easy tasks are harder than they should be2022-06-09
Cropping horizontally unexpectedly changes the video height, preserving proportions unexpectedly2022-06-09
Takes longer to figure out how to do things than to do them2022-06-09
Lagging and crashing, and trouble doing basic tasks like changing clip playback rate2022-06-09
UI is confusing to navigate2022-04-24
Unclear what is being encoded or rendered, with no simple way to see it2020-12-25
Simple clip splitting feels slow and cumbersome to do2020-05-19
Editor is slow and freezes often when working with large files2018-02-01