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Automated stitching in FCP (or another solution)
Hello Everyone,
I’m wondering if anyone has any experience using Final Cut Pro, or another solution for that matter, to automatically edit together a series of pre-built clips and then export them as a finished Quicktime movie. There’s no requirement for transitions, lower thirds, audio sweetening, etc — just the marrying of multiple clips together in a timeline.
The project I’m working on has 5 clips of media; |open|advertisement|content|promo|close|. The open, ad, and close are all fixed and done. The “content” and “promo” section will be replaced on a weekly basis. Because the “content” and “promo” section are being FTP’d with an extremely tight turnaround (on a Sunday night, no less), I’d like to see if I can automate this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
DaveDave Simon
Media Engineering and Consulting
Production | Post | Broadcast
San Francisco
+1-617-908-5043
davesimon -at- gmail.com -
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Automated editing? Are you trying to put us out of work?
That’s 5 clips. Putting them into a timeline, and outputting will take 5 min. What’s wrong with that?
Shane
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You’re right, it’s easy to do. The problem is staffing someone for a Sunday night assembly. It’s so easy that it doesn’t make sense financially to bring in an editor to do the 5 minutes of work.
Dave Simon
Media Engineering and Consulting
Production | Post | Broadcast
San Francisco
+1-617-908-5043
davesimon -at- gmail.com -
Hi Dave, another option would to use Telestream Episode to watch the ftp it can stitch on the top and tail and will spit out a Broadcast ready file – Option 2 is to use Teamviewer remote desktop to remote in from home onto the edit machine and do the 5 min edit – – do both options on a daily basis – even spit out a low res proxie and email it to yourself to check quality
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