adrianovalente / mlt-archiver

This is a project to archive/unarchive Shotcut MLT files

mlt-archiver

This is a tool to help you archive your Shotcut project in a single folder, putting together all dependencies (like videos, images, soundtracks etc.) and using relative paths so that you can share the project with other prople.

Usage

Install mlt-archiver from the NPM Repository

$ npm install --global mlt-archiver

Go to the directory where your .mlt file is located and run the arvhive command. You need to point the directory where you want to create your archived folder.

Archiving

# Create the directory to save the archived media
mkdir ~/Desktop/Montando-Mesa-Archived

# Run the command to archive
mlt-archiver archive ~/Desktop/Montando\ Mesa.mlt ~/Desktop/Montando-Mesa-Archived

# Create a zip file
zip -r -X -9 "Montando-mesa-archived.zip" ~/Desktop/Montando-Mesa-Archived

Unarchiving

# Uncompress the zip file
unzip ~/Downloads/Montando-mesa-archived.zip

# Run the command to unarchive
mlt-archiver unarchive ~/Downloads/Montando-Mesa-Archived/Montando\ Mesa.mlta