Openshot-qt: Copying project to other PC?

[Ruvision]

System Details:

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Issue Description and steps to reproduce:
How do you copy a complete project with assets to an other PC? Just using Explorer is not enough. Project does not open on second PC

[DylanC]

@Ruvision - I have never tried it but I think you would need to structure it like this:

• TopFolder (zip up this one and move to other PC)
  * SourceFolder. - files for the video (images/music)
  * Project file (.osp)

Basically contain everything you need for the video including the project file in the one folder.

Let us know if you try my above idea and if it works. Thanks.

[Ruvision]

Hi DylanC. This is exactly the way I tried to do. Moreover I have on the source PC everything (.osp, video,images and musicfiles) in the same folder and copy the folder as such. I fear that I have to copy some Registry lines too , but which? P{erhaps also some hidden files?
Anyhow I tried again, same negative result.

[DylanC]

@Ruvision - I will try to figure this out for you.

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

Perhaps OpenShot uses absolute path names instead of relative ones? And maybe that's why? @DylanC

[DylanC]

@peanutbutterandcrackers - Yes, I think that is the problem. Openshot needs to have a more portable file format in the future.

[DylanC]

1105 - Set this as a bug. We need to resolve this I think. Unless there is any good reason for absolute paths.

[emanueleg]

I edited the osp file, changing paths of media file from absolute to relative: it works and the project can be moved to a different location without issues.

Please note that to make the project portable to a different computer, thumbnails should point to the local thumbnail directory (inside the project dir) and not the .openshot_qt\thumbnail directory inside the user home.

(Tested in Windows 10 and Linux with Openshot 2.4.1)

[jonoomph]

Currently, OpenShot 2.x uses relative file paths when saving an .OSP file. When the .OSP file is opened by OpenShot, it reconstructs the absolute paths (since they are required at runtime). If you can find a way to easily reproduce an OSP file with absolute paths, please let me know.. because that sounds like a bug. =) Thanks!

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

@jonoomph - Mr. Thomas, on my machine, when I try to look at the .osp file, it shows that the .osp file is, indeed, using absolute paths. Here:

[emanueleg]

@jonoomph to be more precise, an OSP file seems to contain both relative and absolute paths: relative paths are used for the project (files, clips etc), while the history (undo and redo) is saved using absolute paths. I suppose this happens because the convert_paths_to_relative() method does not loop through the elements of the history.

[DylanC]

@emanueleg - Sounds right to me. We probably don't cover enough of the project file using that relative method.