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Export keywords
I am interested in exporting the metadata and keyword information from a series of events. Basically, I’d like to be able to subsequently import this data into a spreadsheet, so I could have a table that presents clip name, duration, keywords, etc. I would like to share this “inventory” with others, as part of a planned collaborative effort.
I’ve fooled around a bit with the XML export, but the data is not parsed and seemingly difficult to use.
Anybody solved this issue?!
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Indeed, all the info is there in the XML, it is just a matter of parsing the stuff, which I don’t believe anyone has done… yet.
If you wanting to try in a hurry, use X to 7 and export the data from there.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Hey Cow People,
This free software works great to export event keyword data: https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
It does group the keywords comma delimited in one column so I did have to use excel to split into different columns and rework those columns a little but only a few minutes. In the end I have a sortable road map to all the clips and their corresponding keywords with timecode in and outs!!
This is heaven as we have up to 6 people logging and sorting footage for a documentary with over 1200 hours of footage, provides a fantastic checks and balances resource.
Hope this helps.
Mangelo
“A life without cause is a life without effect.” -Dildano
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Little update regarding this shareware (it’s call Keyword Extractor) did have a problem with one of my events out of 7 today and wasn’t able to parse the XML data due to a negative duration it found. It’s not 100 reliable but hey it’s free and does work most of the time.
Hopefully editing and printing a variety of data will be standard for FCPX soon as it’s a no brainer the variety of uses!
MA
“A life without cause is a life without effect.” -Dildano
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