Package a project

Use Menu > Package project... when a project needs to travel with the source files it references. Packaging is deliberately separate from normal project saving.

Prerequisites

• Save or create the project you want to package.
• Make sure every required file-backed media source is still available.
• Choose a destination with enough free space for the project and copied media.

Create a project package

1. Open Menu > Package project....
2. Choose the destination ZIP file.
3. Allow Yrendr to validate and collect referenced media.
4. Keep the completed ZIP intact when transferring or archiving the project.

The package uses this layout:

ProjectName.yrendr
media/
    referenced-video.mp4
    referenced-image.png
    referenced-audio.wav

The included .yrendr file remains a normal lightweight Yrendr container. File-backed source references are rewritten to relative paths under media/.

Filename and media handling

Duplicate source filenames receive unique names inside media/, preventing one asset from overwriting another. Media files are stored in the outer ZIP without recompression because formats such as MP4, JPEG and MP3 are already compressed.

Caution: Yrendr stops packaging when a path-like referenced media file is missing. This prevents the application from producing an archive that appears portable but is incomplete.

Open a packaged project

1. Extract the outer ZIP to a folder.
2. Keep the included .yrendr file beside the extracted media/ directory.
3. Open the .yrendr file in Yrendr.

Note: The outer ZIP is a transfer/archive format. Yrendr opens the .yrendr project inside it, not the package ZIP itself.