Library

The library contains all your import media assets. Depending on how you import assets, and if it's video or audio, they are stored differently.

Video Assets

Original video files are not copied into the project directory when imported into the library. Instead, the library only stores the file path and metadata about the original video file.

Warning

As the video asset is referring to an original somewhere on your filesystem, if you move or delete the original file it will break Komposition. A file path resolution mechanism should be added in a future version.

In addition to storing the metadata about the original file, a proxy media file is created when importing. This is lower-resolution video file that is used in scene classification, and when previewing, to improve performance and keep memory usage down.

Video assets produced by the scene classifier are stored in a similar way. They consist of the original file path and the start and end timestamps of the classified scene.

Audio Assets

Like video assets, regular audio assets consist of a file path specifying the original audio file, and metadata. However, if you import with sentence classification, the sentences are split into new audio files stored in the project working directory.

Note

Sentence classification producing new audio files in the project working directory is a technical consequence of the audio classification implementation. In a future version of Komposition it should work just as video scene classification, i.e. not producing new audio files, but referring to the original with start and end timestamp.