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name: gui-batch-operations description: "Operate and troubleshoot VSE's PySide6 GUI, batch task list, subtitle-area selection, AB sections, settings cards, output folders, progress, stop, and retry behavior." metadata: disco-role: operating disable-model-invocation: true license: Apache 2.0

GUI Batch Operations

Use this sub-skill when the user works through VSE's GUI: opening one or more videos, selecting subtitle rectangles, binding areas to AB sections, choosing language/mode/backend/output settings, reading progress, stopping tasks, or recovering failed batch items.

Read first

• GUI workflows: open/select/run/stop/retry and batch behavior.
• settings reference: basic and advanced settings exposed in the GUI.
• selection coordinates: normalized preview rectangles, black-bar correction, and pixel coordinate conversion.
• troubleshooting: headless launch, missing files, bad paths, stop failures, and output-location confusion.
• Use scripts/selection_coordinate_helper.py to convert normalized selections into video pixel coordinates.

Route elsewhere

• Extraction internals and VideoSubFinder: extraction-workflows.
• OCR backend install/model choices: ocr-backends.
• Subtitle cleanup/typo maps: postprocessing-config.
• Sync Timeline algorithm/CLI: subtitle-sync.