Change path of my inputs

[Coolbeudy]

Hello everyone,
All my inputs (original photos, videos, musics) are stored in a same folder that was moved to another location.
Is it possible to change the path of the inputs (massively or not) ? If yes, can you describe how to do ?

Thank you for your help.

[pbattersby]

There’s a more complicated answer but a simple answer is: if you truly need to change the paths, you could edit the .mlt file in a text editor and do a search and replace on the path.

[shotcut]

There is a simpler answer for most people uncomfortable with manually editing XML in a text editor: Shotcut’s Missing Files dialog explained in the following #docs page

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put an…

[pbattersby]

@shotcut

Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time

That’s actually one of the reasons I chose Shotcut over another video editor that would have taken that control away from me. I like having full project management control outside of Shotcut (or whatever tool I’m using).

[Coolbeudy]

Great ! I made a copy to test : I change .mlt extension to .xml, I open with text editor, and I was able to replace massively the path (ctrl + h). Then I changed again .xml to .mlt. I checked the result on shocut and it works properly. Thank you