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automating export of many QT ref files of sections from a timeline?
I would like to be able to take a FCP 5.1 timeline with lots of 1 minute interviews on it, each separated by still graphic bumpers and make a web-format file for each.
I’m guessing part of the answer involves exporting a bunch of QT ref files and giving those to compressor as a batch.
Can anyone tell me (or point to the place to find out) how I might best automate
1) setting of in and out at the right places (just before and after the bump for each interview) and
2) exporting that section as a ref QT using a sequential file name?Please let me know too if it matters if each interview (between the bumps) is a single clip or if it has cuts in it.
Thanks,
Shayne Weyker
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Re: setting the in and out, I was thinking there might be a applescript/automator-able way to make the CTI jump to the start of the next clip in the timeline that matches a certain property (the title of the bumper graphic).
If I could do that then there could a macro/script that would do something like
begin loop
set in point
move CTI to start of next bump
move CTI to next cut
set out point
export QT ref with filename = loop’s count # to a set folder
repeat until loop count = number of interviewswhich should work if the CTI started at the start of the bump for the first interview.
–Shayne
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by the time you get scripting to do it properly (if you can at all) then you most likely could have just exported each one individually and batched processed them in compressor
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You can also batch export by selecting the sequences in a bin and right clicking, selecting batch export. It completely bypasses Compressor and does everything in FCP.
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The best I can come up with is to manually set an in and an out where you want it for each clip and then make it a subclip. FCP will automatically name your sublips sequentially (Sequence 1 Subclip 2, Sequence 1 Subclip 3, etc.) Once you have your subclips, highlight them all and export with compressor, or if you’d rather, choose “Batch Export”
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Getting closer.
Re: the one sequence per interview: Is there a simple way to take one in-to-out from the master sequence timeline and make that a new sequence? Can that in-to-out include cuts or must it be a continuous single clip?
I can put the bumpers in each short sequences I guess.Re: one subclip per interview approach: the interviews would be captured from multiple tapes, would that cause the auto-numbering to reset? Is there a workaround? I’m not concerned about being able to recapture later so using one reel # for all the tapes would be okay if FCP would let me.
–Shayne Weyker
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[Shayne Weyker] “Re: one subclip per interview approach: the interviews would be captured from multiple tapes, would that cause the auto-numbering to reset? Is there a workaround? I’m not concerned about being able to recapture later so using one reel # for all the tapes would be okay if FCP would let me.”
Auto naming is based on the sequence name, so that has nothing to do with reel#.
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