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Export audio to excel
Is there a way to export just your timeline’s audio in’s and out’s (and clip name) to an excel file from Final Cut Pro? We make these music cue sheets and I’m looking for a way to export just the audio tracks that contain library music so that our producers can make the cue sheet without having to sit down at our editing station.
I’ve tried exporting an edl and it’s a bit of a mess. Probably too complex for a producer or intern to read. Is there any way to simplify it? They basically just need the clip/track name, where it starts in the timeline and where it ends.
Thanks in advance
–mat
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3 Replies
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Make a copy of your sequence. Lock your music track(s). Delete all of the rest of the clips, leaving just the music tracks. Then export that to an EDL. That should give you clip names with in’s and out’s.
Lee Berger
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I did something like that. I pasted all my music into a new sequence and exported an edl. But, the edl is kind of confusing for non-technical people.
The problem we run into is that since we are using library music, the music is cut up and looped quite a bit which makes for a bunch of clips with the same name that show up in different places on an edl because they’re on different tracks.
I guess my question is more Excel related. How do I translate the edl info into excel so that I can sort the info based on the in timecode?
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hi,
I have used Soundcount for exporting music cue sheets. Sheets from soundcount looks like edl, but it counts durations for you. If same music is used more than once, the pieces are listed in same place (aphapetical order). This is great tool, but exporting to Excel would be even better, at least for the production assistants 😉
Download and try demo version here:
https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/SoundCount/index.html
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