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Video Editor for Linux
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[feature] Replace media in project. #1102

Closed gegoxaren closed 1 year ago

gegoxaren commented 1 year ago

Please include the following information. 1) Flowblade version (Help->About): 2.10 2) MLT version (Help->Runtime Environment): 7.17.0 3) Your distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint etc.): Flatpak on Debian 12

Hello!

I was wondering if it would be possible to (add support to) replace media in the "library" of a project. I tried to edit the .flb file, but that is no longer human-readable.

(I was using a transport stream (.ts) video, but that did not really work, as there seems to not be any way for Flowblade to (properly) back-traverse to get valid image data per frame, thus making the video not correct when rendered or viewed, so I wanted to replace it with an m4v file without having to re-edit the video again).

Thank you in advance, and thank you for your very useful editor! Gego.

jliljebl commented 1 year ago

There is a workaround for doing this already:

1) Save the Project you are working on. 2) Rename the file you want to replace, something like videofile.mpg -> Xvideofile.mpg. 3) Open project file. You'll get info that that file is missing and prompt to open file in Media Relinker. 4) Go to Media Relinker and select the file you want to use instead of the old one, and then save as directed. 5) Open the created Project file.

Seems at least an occasionally useful feature to be able to do this directly using dedicated GUI, so I'll add this into feature queue.

gegoxaren commented 1 year ago

Ah, that's so obvious! why did I not think of that.

the project I was working on only had one cut, so it was not a big deal, but thank you, I'll try and remember that workaround for the future.

Disaster2life commented 1 year ago

I think this would be really useful to have as a dedicated GUI feature, I remember seeing an issue regarding how to deal with Camera generated proxy clips in flowblade, can't seem to find it now, this would also solve that.

jliljebl commented 1 year ago

Added a "Replace Media in Project..." menu item for media items, feature will be in release 2.12.