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for a collaboration need to split up a project in multiple smaller projects.
i have split it down into 26 separate clips... now how do i save the individual clips as projects?
i cannot export a clip from the menu (why?)
i would very much love to be able to export a clip out of a project as its own separate TVPP

Then as my second option i could try only exporting the clips as mp4... but in the export panel there is no option to only export one clip.
if i select "all Frames - Clip" it displays the whole timeline length and exports the whole project?

Peter Wassink wrote: ↑06 Jun 2023, 11:12 for a collaboration need to split up a project in multiple smaller projects.
i have split it down into 26 separate clips... now how do i save the individual clips as projects?

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i cannot export a clip from the menu (why?)
i would very much love to be able to export a clip out of a project as its own separate TVPX

Then as my second option i could try only exporting the clips as mp4... but in the export panel there is no option to only export one clip.
if i select "all Frames - Clip" it displays the whole timeline length and exports the whole project?

Select each Clip (it must show as highlighted to be truly selected), right-click on it , then from the menu select "Create A New Project from Selected Clip". Repeat for each clip until you have 26 separate projects and then save each one.

Sadly, the newly created project is not automatically named by the Clip Name/Number, so even if you have previously named all your Clips as "Project Name_Clip_001" , "Project Name_Clip_002", "Project Name_Clip_003" , etc. , or named each clip as "SCENE_01", "SCENE_02", "SCENE_03", etc. you will still have to attach the correct name to each of the newly created projects when you save them. As it is now it names each new project as "Project Name FromClip(1) ", "Project Name FromClip(2) ", "Project Name FromClip(3) ", "Project Name FromClip(4) ", etc.

You can also use this option of the Handy Panel:

Thierry wrote: ↑06 Jun 2023, 12:56 You can also use this option of the Handy Panel:

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Oh, yes ! I forgot about that option in the Handy Panel. That is much faster because it splits all clips to projects in one click.

When doing it this way the naming convention for each newly created project is the project name plus a sequential number in parenthesis (1) , (2), (3) , (4) , etc. , which is ok.

So if you had 26 clips you would end up with projects named as: Project Name (1), Project Name (2), Project Name (3), Project Name (4), Project Name (5), Project Name (6) , etc. until Project Name(26).

The only thing that makes me cautious about having the project number in parenthesis is that if I recall correctly sometimes parenthesis in a project name or layer names can cause problems Exporting to JSON , if you were to need to do that later on. Or am I not remembering it correctly (the problem with parenthesis ?)

ah great. thank you guys! that's awesome, why is this not in the menu though? would make sense to also find it there? Anyway that is where i was trying to find it.

If i set the main project to embed the sound, will the separate newly exported into projects clips also have their sound embedded?
and will the embedded tool panels also be embedded in the new projects?

well i'guess i'm gonna find out now.

thanks again.

Oops i could not find where tvpaint saved the projects... and did it again only to then realize it just opens them as projects... now i have 50 projects openend ... how am i gonna save them without having to do them one by one?

edit.. well and then TVPaint crashed so i at least do not have to worry about how to close them all...

is there a way to save all opened projects easily?

Is there a way to close projects simply? i think i recall we used to have all openend projects visible as a list under windows.

this is not particularly pretty or handy.

neither is this: its silly looking...but this was addressed recently i believe?

Peter Wassink wrote: ↑07 Jun 2023, 13:56 is there a way to save all opened projects easily?

Is there a way to close projects simply? i think i recall we used to have all openend projects visible as a list under windows.


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this is not particularly pretty or handy.

neither is this:
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its silly looking...but this was addressed recently i believe?

Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to save all the opened projects easily , all in one go. You have to click on each opened project and Save. One at a time ...

I wonder if someone (Svengali or Mads or Nathan) has come up with a script for Save All Opened Projects. This seems like it should be a new feature request. A "Save All Open Projects" in the menu should be built in. (or maybe in the TVPaint Converter ?)

Yes, i was thinking the same; could not some of these project management type tasks be relegated to the converter.

There is a shortcut to Save All Projects.


Worked ok to save the 4 projects I currently have open in TVPaint. I imagine it would take a while to save 26 or more open projects, so definitely would be a good task for the TVPaint Converter , so the saving could happen in the background while you could still continue working in TVPaint.

It looks like a script could be built around a project consisting of n number of clips which would directly save each clip out as a named project, looping the "tv_ProjectSaveSequence" command after retrieving each clip name (concatenated as part of the path) using the relative beginning frame and end frame for each clip...

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