(Feature): An option to link loaded images and video to the project with a relative path

[LxeC]

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When you load a new image or video file in a Reader node, then the file is loaded with its absolute path. This is fine if you keep your content files in set locations, but eventually becomes a mess if you want the project to be portable across computers or simply back it up.

Interesting enough, you can change the path of the video/image file in the Reader node to ./ and it will successfully load the file if you move the project around. But the common user doesn't really know to do that.

After Effects has a feature where you can collect the project files and it places them in a (Footage) folder right next to the .aep project file. Natron could have something similar or perhaps an alternative easy idea would be to just have a setting to "Use relative paths for content files" instead and just replace the absolute path with "./".

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