D.T. Nethery : I think that the bug is also here for mac os. It's not a problem of os. I don't know but try with a black sequence of images and replace it on your imported folder with a white sequence of images and tell me if it updates on the first frame of your clip... If it's ok then you're really lucky. On linux and windows it doesn't work
I was reminded in mp to share it so here is my panel. You have just 2 little buttons (no visuals so do as you like...), tell me if it's usefull and what you think and if there is something to upgrade and i'll be really happy to fix it :
- The first button is the importing button.
You have to be in the clip:layers tab because if you are in the project tab the mark in/mark out placement does'nt work. Then in the import menu
you have to import it as a new clip if it's a separated shot, it's also important (but you can also import it as a new layer if you want to import the background then your animation on that background, it works too. Also you can import it as a new project for the first imported clip to have something clean...). Then it creates a new clip with your imported sequence (tga/tiff images or video or whatever) with a blank frame at the beginning and the mark in one frame after. And you also have a layer on top of your imported sequence (with the post behaviour on hold to refresh everything to infinity and beyond) which you can toggle visibility on/off to refresh your sequence, for playing your sequence when you need to update it cause you have some old sequence calculated on your proxy. The layer is renamed "toggle_visibility_to_refresh_playback", i think it's quite obvious...
- The second button is simply a on/off visibility toggle that runs on every first layer of every clip. So basically if you use the first button to import all your shots in your "editing project", then you can refresh everything with the second button. But be carefull cause it really refreshes everything, if you have just a single clip to update you better just toggle the visibility of the first layer of that single clip, it's faster. Also to update everything you can just relaunch your project... but i always have my editing project opened to check how my entire project look when i'm just animating on a single scene, so all of that is usefull. And it's slower to close/open a project than just updating it where i need to.
Basically in my folders for an ambitious project : i have a main project with all that editing stuff that is my "final project if i export it", i have a folder with one tvpaint project for each shot that i'm animating, and i have a folder with in it one folder for each shot in which i export all the image sequences from each shot's tvpaint project that i import linked on my main project. And you can then do smart editing on your main project by replacing the mark in/out of each clip where it's usefull to have a dynamic editing at the frame you want for each clip, it's really handy (i think it's less confortable do to frame by frame editing in adobe premiere).
For importing audio from your individual clips WITHOUT losing image quality it's another story... The internal avi format is really cool for importing lossless images but you can't import audio with it (and there is a bug duplicating the last frame... that's why i use image sequences). Maybe mp4 can import audio, the you just have to replace you frames just for final editing if you do'nt want to lose quality. On your project tab you can also do audio editing for all your main project so for music it's really handy. For characters talking and lipsynch synch i think i'll prefer to import directly the project with audio to have it correctly synchronised... So there is some tricky things to do to import also your lossless image sequence, and i'll be really happy if tvpaint can create a simple video format that can import lossless audio and frames in a single video clip and without a duplicated frame problem at the end (and maybe a first blank frame just for us crazy fools trying to do editing with tvpaint...).
Sorry i'm french, my english is not as good as it should be but i hope you understood what i wanted to say... If it's not ok just ask and i'll try to explain it better! Glad to know that i'm not the only one interested by editing ambitious projects in tvpaint.
