I am a relatively new ShotCut user, having come over from VideoStudio.
What I do miss is the project archiver that is present in VideoStudio.
So I set about to write one myself.
I have a cross-platform very alpha version with the basic functionality operating and I am looking for interest from testers willing to try it out on their projects and report issues.
I would also like to make sure I have permission from the ShotCut developer to be distributing this utility program.
I have attached a PDF of the rough draft documentation (its 5 pages) so you can get a feel for what it does.
If I get the go ahead, I’ll setup a github repo to move this project further along.
Thank You. I am doing some refactoring to make sure everything works correctly in Linux as well as Windows. I will post a follow up when the source and compiled code is available.
Looks like a useful tool. I will try to test it this week.
But for now, here are two small esthetic issues I noticed (which you probably already know about):
1- When resizing the window, the Hide Tree View button moves around the screen in an unexpected way.
2- It would be nice, when resizing the main window, if the two columns would automatically adapt their size as well, and/or if we had the possibility to manually resize each column.
Hi @Fillimerica - Thank you for this tool. I tried the earlier version and like @musicalbox I noticed how the white boxes stayed the same width, which was a little annoying since my file-paths were long and disappeared out of range! However, this is rectified in the latest version which I just tried. Great - I think this could be very useful for me and a lot of regular users, especially the ability to zip all project files.
Thanks again and congratulations!
Hi @Fillimerica - thank you for this very useful tool!
I just checked v0.3 (under Windows 10) with my project repositories and observed one glitch: The largest of my recent video files has some 3.2 GB, the others are 2GB and smaller.
Only for the largest one the packager displays a negative size of -900-something MB:
Hi,
Thanks for the bug report.
I have compiled a new version V0.4.0 in the repository.
It corrects for the incorrect display of large media files plus a few additional issues I discovered in testing.
Please check out the new version and let me know if it solves your problem.
Hi Tom,
thanks for the update. The size is now displayed correctly. It also fixed that some missing (.flac) files were not listed in some projects (I thought this was correct, but now it is correct :-))
PS: I wonder how the tool remembered my recently used path after the update, although it seems to be just an exe, with no installer …?
Great.
Re the PS. If you’re using the Windows version, then the open and save dialogs remember the last location accessed. This is stored in the registry and is automatic behavior unless the application chooses to set a default location, which I did not. I like this behavior.
On Linux it is different, the user’s home folder is opened each time the application is started.
