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Excellent suggestion.
Project files from Videopad are human-readable with lines like :

hindex=19217
folders=0
files=55
clips=28
h=3&hfile=2&hfolder=0&name=00773.MTS%20-%20Clip%201&in=0&out=26320
h=6&hfile=5&hfolder=0&name=00774.MTS%20-%20Clip%201&in=0&out=47640
h=9&hfile=8&hfolder=0&name=00775.MTS%20-%20Clip%201&in=0&out=36200

- the URL encoding makes it a bit tricky but people with messed up
projects have been able to rescue the situation. It would fit well into
the FOSS ethos to make it clear and editable. I can't say I'd be keen on
XML though :)

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Project file should be a plain text file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499733
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Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New

Bug description:
The OpenShot project file should be a plain text file. It is now a binary, thus not human readable nor adjustable.

Advantages of using clear text:
- you can clearly see what and how things are organised
- things can be easily adjusted when something goes wrong
- you can do automated text operations with grep/sed/awk etc.

This is related (technically) to the problem where the path of the thumbnails of imported clips are registered in an absolute way. Moving the project file to another location or renaming the folder containing this project file, leads to not properly display of the thumbnails within the clips on the IDE. This could be adjusted, as a workaround, if the project file was in plain text.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/423948