• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Automator and FCP – Automate Timeline Setup?

  Posted by Ernst Kruger on March 28, 2011 at 5:29 pm

  I am not sure if this is possible but I would sure like to see.

  I want to know if it is possible to Setup clips for playout on a timeline using automator? The thing is just that there are about 30 of these 15 second clips that all go on 1 Betacam SP tape and they have to be placed on the timeline in a specific order with 5 seconds of black between each one. Is is possible to automate this process? could u get automator to place these clips onto the timeline according to the order that they appear in say a .txt or .rtf list?

  It does not seem like it should be all that complicated but I don’t really have much experience so I may be mistaken. If anyone has experience or knows how to go about setting this up….I would really appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance.

  Ernst Kruger replied 15 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  March 28, 2011 at 6:49 pm

  What’s wrong with doing this manually? I could build that in 10 min. Why do people want the EASY button for these things? Editing is work. But this actually doesn’t take much effort.

  Shane

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  Patrice Freymond

  March 29, 2011 at 6:08 am

  Look for “Storyboard Editing” in your manual. You can do this in one sweep if you create a black clip first, or edit the clips in first in one go and then insert black between each clip in a separate pass (next clip /insert).

  Or as Shane says…

  hope this helps,

  patrice
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  Ernst Kruger

  March 29, 2011 at 7:35 am

  There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing it manually, in fact I do build them manually and it takes me all of 3 min to do. It’s not creating the setup that is the problem.

  The problem is ensuring that the right clips go in the right order and that none are missed out. All very good and well when you are only doing one setup but when you do many of these a day there is a great chance that somewhere along the line there will be mistakes…Which can’t happen.

  The broadcaster gets really peeved if there are mistakes… So really this whole thing is an exercise in eliminating the space for human error, but thanks for your input anyway.
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  Patrice Freymond

  March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am

  1) Naming and numbering clearly

  2) Storyboard editing

  3) done

  P.
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  Ernst Kruger

  March 29, 2011 at 3:03 pm

  Thanks alot for that tip.

  I tried it out and I have found that the amount of control I have over what is being played out is much greater.

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