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Message #04064
[Bug 499733] Re: Project file should be a plain text file
If you extend SMIL¹, you get a bit of interop with other video engines
(e.g. RealPlayer, HelixPlayer², Ambulant³) and a specification which
has had some pretty thorough peer review (including patent safety).
Inkscape did this with SVG with I believe good results. SMIL covers the
animations; you'd have to extend it to include the catalogue info you've
described above. Following is a brief example of SMIL animation.
¹ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/
² https://player.helixcommunity.org/
³ http://www.ambulantplayer.org/
<!DOCTYPE smil PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SMIL 2.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/SMIL20.dtd";>
<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language";>
<head>
<meta name="title" content="For OpenShot" />
<layout type="text/smil-basic-layout">
<root-layout height="768px" width="1024px" backgroundColor='white' />
<region id="r1" top="20px" left="0px" height="720px" />
<region id="credits" top="768px" left="380px" height="1200px" />
</layout>
<transition id="snake" dur="1s" type="snakeWipe" />
<transition id="clockR" dur="2s" type="clockWipe" direction='reverse' />
<transition id="iris" dur="2s" type="irisWipe" />
</head>
<body>
<par title='Intro'>
<img src="background.jpg" erase="never" />
<seq begin='5s'>
<img src="ready.png" dur="5s" region='r1' />
<audio src='woza.wav' begin="2s" title='Intro music'/>
</seq>
<seq begin='14s'>
<img src="well_txt.png" dur="6s" transIn='snake' transOut='snake' />
<par>
<img src="welcome.jpg" dur="15s" transIn='iris' region='full_image'/>
</par>
</seq>
</par>
<par begin="4s" title='Credits'>
<audio src='edith.wav' title='Intro music'/>
<seq>
<img begin='5s' region='credits' src="cred.png" dur="83s" fill='remove'>
<animateMotion targetElement='credits' to="380,-1200"
begin='2s' dur="80s" fill='freeze'/>
</img>
<img region='r1' src='cont.png' dur='10s' transIn='clockR'/>
</seq>
</par>
</body>
</smil>
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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: In Progress
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
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