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Incompatible OSP file from 2021? Are there changes which could be converted? #5284

Open ChristianRohde opened 1 year ago

ChristianRohde commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I want to edit an old project from 2021 which was saved in .osp format and all data is available in same structure. All videos and photos are loaded to the project files as well as to the timeline of the video. Unfortunately, some of the videos are neither shown in the preview and also not in a fresh export. All of these not working files are labeled with a brown C, but some labeled files do work as expected. Basically all of these files which are not working are GoPro MP4 Format. I opened the OSP file using a texteditor: at least the path of the files look OK. Other things are kind of hard to judge since I have no knowledge how things work under the hood.

In principle I have trouble with the old OSP opend in the latest stable release software: I can not edit the files as expected: drag/drop does not work etc. However, I can still prepare a new project using the latest software with all of these files and I can do everything well. The problem is that in this project I invested a lot of time in cropping etc and it would be a nightmare to start from scratch again. On the other hand i still have hope that maybe partially of the syntax changed, such that my old file is not any more compatible with latest software. I tried a lot old versions, but this did not help and for example version 2.6.1 does not show the preview on my current OS any more. But maybe it would be possible convert my old OSP file to new syntax automatically. Am I wrong with my speculation?

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Colorjet3 commented 1 year ago

Hello @ChristianRohde. Sorry that you are having issues with an older project. It is common that sometimes trying to open older projects with the latest version of an application does not work properly. There are some thing you can try to see if you can open the project successfully. I am going to make some assumptions:

  1. You were still running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS back in 2021.
  2. You used OpenShot version 2.6.1. Since you did not indicate which month then we don't exactly know which build #.

Facts:

  1. Many updates to Ubuntu 22.04 lts between 2021 and now. Some may have impacted OpenShot.
  2. Lots of updates to OpenShot since v2.6.1 including Effects which you have used (The brown C which is the Crop effect).

Unknowns:

  1. How were you running OpenShot?
    a. Are you using the AppImage? b. Are you using the PPA install (Stable or Daily)? c. Are you running the packaged version that comes with Ubuntu? d. What version are you running now and which of the methods above (1.a-1.c)?

With all that said, please try this:

  1. Close OpenShot if running.
  2. Make a backup of /home/username/.openshot_qt folder.
  3. Delete /home/username/.openshot_qt folder.
  4. Start OpenShot (when you report back tell us which version you are running and how you start OpenShot)?
  5. Open your project. How does it look? Are things better? If not, continue to step 6
  6. Close OpenShot.
  7. Delete /home/username/.openshot_qt folder.
  8. Go to openshot.org/download/#daily.
  9. download the latest daily available of v3.1.1.
  10. make the appimage executable and start OpenShot.
  11. Open your project and see how things are. If all is good then you are set to go. If not continue with step 12. don't delete this AppImage yet.
  12. Close OpenShot.
  13. Delete /home/username/.openshot_qt folder.
  14. Go to openshot.org/download/#daily.
  15. Click on More... on the bottom of the page and wait till the page loads.
  16. Find one of the v2.6.1 daily build AppImage that is closest in date to which month you created your 2021 project.
  17. download that AppImage. Make it Executable and run it.
  18. open your project and see if it works. If it works, save it once.
  19. Close OpenShot.
  20. Now run V3.1.1 AppImage, open your project and see if all good.

The drag & drop issue surface a few months ago with some updates made by Ubuntu. The lead developer of OpenShot came up with a workaround: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues/5221. Scroll down to May 13 response by @jonoomph for the steps to resolve the issue.

Hope this gets you on the right track.

P.S. - Do not enable any hardware acceleration options in Edit | Preferences section.

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