08 Project List & Batch Queue

Each of the four project types has its own list page (Expert Video Translation, Quick Video Translation, Video Subtitle, Video Dub), and they never mix. The list pages hold the work you already have; this chapter is about what you can do with it.

1. What you can do from a card

Every card carries a row of icon buttons in its lower-right corner, each with a tooltip when you hover:

• Edit subtitles (finished projects only): opens the editor directly.
• Retry (failed or cancelled projects only): picks the pipeline back up at the step that failed, see 03 Translation Pipeline & Progress.
• Open project directory: this is how you collect the finished video — the app has no "Export" button, the finished file is simply target.mp4 in the project directory.
• Rename: changes the display name, minimum 2 characters.
• Delete: the confirmation box spells it out — This action cannot be undone. Files and records will be deleted. If a job has already run for an hour and you want the output, copy target.mp4 out before you delete.

Clicking the card itself: a project that hasn't finished opens the pipeline page, where you can watch progress and cancel it. A finished one opens somewhere that depends on its type — Expert and Quick land on the read-only preview page first, Video Subtitle and Video Dub go straight into the editor.

Things that don't exist, so you don't hunt for them: cards can't duplicate a project, can't move it to another type, and there is no search box or sort control. Once the list gets long, page down with "Show more".

2. The status text on a card

The status line says what the project is doing right now. The usual values are: Not Started, Created, Audio Extracting / Audio Extraction Complete, Vocal Separation in Progress / Vocal Separation Complete, Voice Recognition in Progress / Voice Recognition Complete, Translating Subtitles / Translation Complete, Generating Audio / Audio Generated, Merging Video / Video Synthesis Complete, Burning Subtitles / Subtitles Burned, Completed, Exported, Cancelled, Failed. Quit the app halfway through and the "Failed" you see when you come back is usually just the step you interrupted — press Retry.

3. The preview page: where you accept the finished video

Expert and Quick projects land here when they finish, and it is read-only. A column on the left lists this project's settings (Language, Speech Recognition Quality, Target Voice, Subtitle Position, Subtitle Size, and the voice assigned to each speaker). In the middle sit two players, Original Video and Translated Video: press Sync Play to run them side by side in step, Stop Sync to halt them, which is how you check lip sync and subtitle timing. That column has exactly two actions — Open Folder for the files, and Edit for the editor, where you fix subtitles or voices and regenerate. Until the translated video exists its half of the page stays blank, which is normal.

4. Batch Queue: line up a stack at once

Only the Quick Video Translation page has a second tab along the top: Batch Queue. The other three types have no queue.

1. Click Add Files and pick several videos at once in the system file dialog; they enter the queue first, status "Pending".
2. Click Batch Configuration — the same form you get when creating a project (languages, quality tier, voice, subtitles) — and it applies to the whole batch; then click Add to Queue.
3. Click Start and the queue runs the items one after another. The running item shows its overall progress and the name of the current step.
4. Take finished items out of the list with Clear Finished so they don't hide the failures you haven't looked at yet.

The trade-offs at the queue level, worth knowing up front:

• There is no "Pause": only Cancel All (which asks you to confirm) and Remove for a single item; a failed item gets Retry.
• One failure doesn't break the batch: that item is marked "Failed" with its reason attached to it and the rest carry on. When the run ends you get one line: "Queue completed: N Completed, M Failed".
• But an exhausted quota or a lost sign-in does stop the whole batch: the remaining "Pending" items sit where they are. Add credit or sign in again, then press "Start".
• Nothing in the queue ever stops halfway to wait for you to review the translation. Batch translation is built to run unattended and turns out the finished video when it's done — that is the biggest difference between Quick and Expert (see 02 Creating a Project).
• After an item finishes, Open Project jumps to its progress and its output.