The suggestion, I think, should be that the default behavior of this filter will automatically READ the Default preset (if it exists), instead of essentially creating a new set of parameters each time and then writing them TO the Default preset in the User directory (which appears to be what it’s doing now).Completely free to download, Shotcut is a powerful, full-featured video editing program that works across a number of platforms.

Of course, it’s always a good idea to make a backup copy of this file before editing it, and I assume that future Shotcut updates will overwrite this file.

Shotcut/share/shotcut/qml/filters/dynamictext/Īnd if you open this file with a simple text editor (like NotePad or TextEdit), you can change the defaults! If you go into your Shotcut folder (I have the standalone I assume for people who used the installer it would be somewhere in Program Files), then:

When I’m using an image for text overlay, like a blank PNG or a bar at the bottom of the screen so the text shows up nicely, I’ll stretch the image out to the whole length of where I need text, set my text settings, then right-click on the clip and Split At Playhead wherever I want the text contents to change (like the lyrics for each verse), and go through and change the words for each clip.

You could make a new Preset, setting your text just the way you like it and clicking the “+” button next to “Preset.” This way, if “Song Title” and “Verse Lyrics” had different font size or styles or whatever, you could easily recall those settings.

And I have two other suggestions for text.

Shotcut titles