--source
Option Do?Auto-Editor allows you to create timeline objects with your files, however, typing/dragging the file path every time an object is declared is a pain. What --source
does is map a path to a short and reusable label. You can use that label to reference the file without using it's path.
# Map a path to the label "dog"
--source dog:/Users/wyattblue/Downloads/dog-123.png
Right now, src
only accepts source names and not the file path directly. This might change in the future.
Also, user defined labels cannot:
, = . : ; ( ) / \ [ ] { } ' " | # < > & ^ % $ _ @
anywhere0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -
)This is partly because of limitations on file path names, *cough* Windows *cough*, but also to make parsing easy and forwards compatible.
The reason *User defined* is there is that paths given to auto-editor without a label are assigned a name, 0
, 1
, 2
and beyond.
# How you would use `--source` in a real situation
auto-editor movie.mp4 movie2.mp4 --source dog:/Users/wyattblue/Downloads/dog-123.png \
--add image:0,30,src=dog