Multiple .sVproj files in the same directory over-write each other's assets

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

Hey there!

First of all, thank you for slowmovideo. This is awesome. And you are awesome.

I'm currently using v0.6 of the software. And just now, I was trying to make a series of slowmovideos out of a few footage. And I tried to make all projects within a Videos/slowmos directory. But I can see that they over-write each others contents.

Perhaps this could be fixed by using a separate sub-directory for each .sVproj? Or, perhaps even using a separate project-name sub-directory under $XDG_CACHE_HOME?

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

Oh, and also, the file I was just rendering - the rendered file contains the frames from the previous project in the same directory. (The newer project was smaller than the previous one. So I figure it over-wrote the first N frames but the remaining frames from the previous video got stitched into the video.)

[Granjow]

Hi @peanutbutterandcrackers ! Project directory requirements are a bit unclear and it needs redesign. At the moment, it is supposed that you have a separate directory for every project exactly for the reason you just observed.

This could be fixed by assigning every new project a unique ID and storing cached files in cache/{id}/files, for example.

[peanutbutterandcrackers]

Hey there, Mr. Granjow,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. And thank you for considering this for the next version.

Here's something that you might like: I've packaged slowmovideo in Gnu Guix for my personal use in my own channel. I'm having a bit of issues with the icon not showing up in my menu entry. But apart from that, the package definition is pretty clean and I hope to submit it upstream to be used with the Gnu Guix system, soon, once I figure out the icon issue.

Anyways, the reason why you might find that interesting is because, using that definition, one can quickly setup a development environment for slowmovideo with a mere: guix environment --load-path=$(dirname /path/to/slowmovideo.scm) slowmovideo. Once it is merged upstream, one will be able to do that with a mere guix environment slowmovideo.

Just a fun little thing that I thought you might like.