Project

A Project is the object containing everything specific to an editing project.

Projects are loaded and saved using the Formatters.

Contents

• The Settings of the Project.
• The History of the actions that brought us to the current state of the Project.
• The Content Bin, containing all the SourceFactory used in the Timeline.
• The Timeline, describing how the various objects (sources, operations) are laid out (through time and priority).

Settings

Here we will store the settings of the project, which contains, amongst other things:

• Metadata
  • Description
  • Author
  • Project file location/directory
  • ...
• Rendering settings
  • These are the description of the streams
    • Remark : ... maybe we don't need them since we just need to look at the timeline streams to know that ?
• Project file-format specific settings
  • Remark : It might actually be better to have those stored in Project subclasses since the formatter allows that.

TODO : Brainstorm what else could be stored there remembering it's project specific.

History

The generic idea is that we store every action done on the Timeline and Content Bin along with the arguments, and we can then:

• undo an action
• redo an action
• serialize that list of actions

There shouldn't be any (practical) limits to the history.

TODO : Create a new page specific to History/Undo/Redo since it has implications bigger than just for the Project.

Content Bin

It can only contain discovered SourceFactory. That means they contain at least the description of all the contained Streams, its duration. Remark : A thumbnail representing the source might also be enforced.