Feature "Episodes"

[petr-akhlamov]

Hello. I want to suggest for Shotcut feature of “Episodes”.

This feature like at other editors, when user can create additional items with timelines.

In it do videoediting, and later include this timeline to other timeline as united track or as kit of elements (video, images, audio and etc.)

This is often used in complex projects where you’re doing a lot of small tracks and then putting it all together on one track.

[brian]

Have you ever tried this:

File > Open MLT XML as Clip

In Shotcut, the “Open MLT XML as Clip” feature allows you to import an MLT XML file directly into your project as a single clip. This means that instead of treating the XML file as a project file with multiple elements like video clips, audio tracks, and effects, Shotcut treats it as a single media item that can be placed on the timeline like any other clip. Using this feature can be handy if you want to incorporate a pre-edited project into your current project without having to import each in…

Some people call it “sub projects”. Basically, you can do a whole project, and then import that project into a new project as its own clip.

I know there are users here who have more advanced workflows using this. It would be great if someone would volunteer to make a tutorial to show how they use nested MLT projects.

[Ar_D]

I would rather call it compound clip or nesting a project. Episodes is too vague to describe it.

Although, I do feel just saving a project each time, opening a new windows and then importing is a lot more time consuming and impractical.

Let’s say if I only want to nest the top 3 layers of my clips out of the 7 layers, I can’t basically do that, I have to just open a new window, copy paste those timeline clips, save that as mlt and then importing as mlt to edit again.

A nesting feature is good suggestion.

• improved UI for nested projects (MLT XML clips)

I hope what I am telling is what they mean according to this in the roadmap.
That is enable support for switching between timelines in the same project/window.

[shotcut]

I am probably going to leave the more advanced so called compound-clip creation and multiple-sequences UI and workflow actions for our big sister Kdenlive.

[nadoelologinpodbira]

Sounds like something very complicated. I just work in several windows, Shortcut loads the system very lightly, and I can copy as if I were working in one window.

[Ar_D]

Indeed it is complicated but alt+tab isn’t as fast as double clicking a compound clip to open a new timeline that you can switch anytime. Ofcourse ignoring the fact that shotcut is kind of lightweight so multiple projects don’t do much.

As Dan said he would leave it in kdenlive’s team, I would honestly love to see one day in shotcut.

[nadoelologinpodbira]

I do everything with the mouse, alt-tab will start sorting through everything. But for me, Shortcut doesn’t open in the entire Windows window, the taskbar is always visible, it’s even better, otherwise I would never have guessed that you can edit videos like that. In Premiere Pro, I tried to open two projects at once, but something went wrong there, I couldn’t figure out that mess.