• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Creating markers from a list of timecode

  Posted by Caleb Mclaughlin on December 10, 2012 at 12:09 am

  Hey everyone. The short story is:
  I have a list of timecode locations that I want to create markers from.

  The long story:
  I’m converting old VHS tapes, and I’m ending up with 6hr AVI files. The plan is to archive it all categorically. I found a German program called AVCutty (thank you CreativeCow for that one), and it does a pretty good job of scene detecting the footage. From there, I can export AVI files of each scene, and that’s all well and good except except that it takes a good chunk of time and I have a TON of VHS tapes, and I’d like to avoid having too many files floating around. In order to simplify my workflow, I want to create markers in my Premiere Pro (CS6) timeline, and then split and encode the footage from there (and that way I can make sure the edit points are all correct). AVCutty can export a CSV file, which I can then put into a spreadsheet and have the location of every edit point at my fingertips. However, unless I can find a good way to make markers from it, it does me no good.

  Any good ideas or workarounds?

  P.S. I can also export the list to AVCutty proprietary format (.scn), Vegas EDL (which are .txt files), and AVISynth Script (.avs)

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  Caleb

  Caleb Mclaughlin replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  December 10, 2012 at 2:04 pm

  What does the Vegas EDL look like? Can you paste a portion?

  If it looks like a standard EDL then you could rename the extension to .edl, import it into Premiere, and relink the footage.

  Exporting individual cuts within Premiere is very cumbersome. I may import the sequence into After Effects and use scripts (I’m sure one exists) to split the layers into individual comps that you can queue for encoding.

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  Caleb Mclaughlin

  December 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm

  [Angelo Lorenzo] “What does the Vegas EDL look like? Can you paste a portion?”

  You know, up until now, I’ve never used or looked into EDL’s. I will poke around with that when I get home tonight. You raise a good point about the chance of AE being a better tool for this too. I’ll follow up later tonight or tomorrow.

  Thanks!

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  Caleb
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  Caleb Mclaughlin

  December 11, 2012 at 1:03 am

  The Vegas EDL looks like this. Each chunk is one line of the EDL. I split each value into different lines so it could be understood easier.

  “ID”;
  “Track”;
  “StartTime”;
  “Length”;
  “PlayRate”;
  “Locked”;
  “Normalized”;
  “StretchMethod”;
  “Looped”;
  “OnRuler”;
  “MediaType”;
  “FileName”;
  “Stream”;
  “StreamStart”;
  “StreamLength”;
  “FadeTimeIn”;
  “FadeTimeOut”;
  “SustainGain”;
  “CurveIn”;
  “GainIn”;
  “CurveOut”;
  “GainOut”;
  “Layer”;
  “Color”;
  “CurveInR”;
  “CurveOutR”:
  “PlayPitch”;
  “LockPitch”

  1;
  1;
  0.000000;
  13580.206979;1.000000;
  FALSE;
  FALSE;
  0;
  FALSE;
  FALSE;
  VIDEO;
  “R:Captured VideoMyTapeMyClip005.avi”;
  0;
  0.000000;
  13580.206979;
  0.000000;
  0.000000;
  1.000000;
  4;
  0.000000;
  4;
  0.000000;
  0;
  -1;
  4;
  4;
  0.000000;
  FALSE

  I tried renaming the file from .txt to .edl, but all it did was create an empty sequence in Premiere. I’m going to try to figure out what a Premiere EDL looks like and see if I can modify the EDL’s that AVCutty puts out. Any thoughts?

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  Caleb

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