Save a video project and keep editing later or on another computer
Your video edits are saved as you work. Save a project to keep working later, or with copies of all its files to move it to another computer.
01Your edits are saved as you work
Your edits are saved as you work: a moment after each change, the Studio keeps it, so there is never anything to save when you close the file, quit or update ClipHearth. Under the Studio's title it says Changes kept automatically. An edit starts with your first change, so a file you only look at leaves nothing behind.
02Continue editing
Close the file, or ClipHearth, and the edit waits on the Studio's start page under Continue editing, newest first, with when you last changed it, its length and where it is kept (Kept in ClipHearth, or the name of your project file). Click it and the file opens with every change in place, where you left off. ClipHearth keeps only its own copies of your latest edits and deletes older ones it kept itself, never a project file you saved, so save a project for an edit you want to keep for good.
03Opening a file you edited before
A file you open again starts clean, so an old trim or cut never slips into an export unseen. A bar above the Studio says You edited this file before, last on …, with Continue those changes. If you change something instead, a new edit starts and the bar goes; the earlier edit stays under Continue editing.
04If ClipHearth crashes
Whether you close the app or it crashes, you pick up where you left off. After a crash, the start page says ClipHearth ended while … was open. Your changes up to then are kept. The edit is under Continue editing, and a click opens it.
05Save project…: Only the project
Save project… in the header, or Cmd+S on a Mac and Ctrl+S on Windows and Linux, asks How do you want to save it? Only the project (.cph) is A small file with your changes. It points to the video and the other files the edit uses where they are now. Keep those files where they are, because a file that is moved or deleted is missing when the project opens. From then on every change goes into that file as you work, and the line under the Studio's title names it, for example Saved in Lecture.cph.
06Save project…: With its files
With its files (.cphz) is One larger file with your changes and a copy of every file the edit uses. Take it to another computer or keep it as an archive. Nothing it needs can go missing. It keeps the edit as it is when you save it, and your own edit goes on as before. The window says how many files it holds and how large it is, checks that the disk has room, and shows Copying the files with Cancel while it works. Inside a .cphz is an ordinary ZIP, so its files can be taken out without ClipHearth.
07Open a project
On the Studio's start page, Open a project takes a .cph or a .cphz, and so does Choose files. You can also drop a project anywhere on the ClipHearth window, or double click it in Finder, in Explorer (once ClipHearth has started) or in a Linux file manager when ClipHearth is installed from the .deb package. A .cphz is unpacked into a folder beside it, named after it, and you go on working there; opening the same .cphz again goes on in that folder. Where nothing can be written beside it, ClipHearth asks Choose where to unpack the project.
08When a file has moved
ClipHearth looks for every file where it was, then beside the project. If the video you edited is nowhere, it asks Where is lecture.mp4 now? Anything else it cannot find is left out, and the bar above the Studio says The project opened without …, which could not be found or read. The project file stays as it was until you change something, so a disk that is not plugged in costs it nothing. A project from a newer ClipHearth says This project was saved by a newer ClipHearth. Update ClipHearth to open it.
09Share a project like the files themselves
A project holds more than your changes: it also carries the speech transcript from Edit by text, if one was made, and the original paths of its files, which can show your user name and folder names. Share a project, with its files or without, only with people who may see all of that, and open a project from someone else only when you trust where it came from.
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