Formatter

A Formatter is responsible for:

• Storing a Project and all of its contents for later usage, and/or
• Creating a Project and all of its contents.

A default Formatter will always be available for storing/creating projects under the internal PiTiVi project file format.

New Formatters can be provided through plugins.

A non-exhaustive list of potential Formatters:

• AAF, used by FCP, Avid, ...
• Playlists:
  • EDL
  • ASX
  • ...
• Application specific formats for Cinelerra, kino, kdenlive, ...
• Application specific formats for FCP, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, ...
• Online storages
  • MetaVid

A Formatter can provide its own type of ObjectFactory provided it is a subclass of a known valid ObjectFactory (SourceFactory, OperationFactory).

Capabilities

• loadProject(location) : returns a new Project fully loaded.
• storeProject(project,location) : stores the given Project at the given location.
• canHandle(location) : Test whether the Formatter can handle the given location.