Export Markers (Solved until Adobe provides something better)

[Ht Davis]

Adobe has now provided something better. You can now export markers to a text file with a CSV extension, but tab delimited lines of information in audition, and, I expect, Premiere. Though I’m not certain how different marker types are handled yet, I will be testing this out and getting back to you. All who still have questions about these functions, please leave them here.

So far, I’ve exported files from LOGIC PRO that have lower sample rates, then imported their markers onto files with higher sample rates once finished. Since they have the same decimal timing, the sample count is irrelevant, I would guess, and the import only reads the text of the file as an absolute decimal. This makes perfect sense, and as long as your files are the same amount of decimal time or movie frame time, the markers line up.
Logic pro has an issue with WAV files… …It will not BOUNCE anything over 3.5gb due to the fact that it uses the old 32bit WAV file format (in a 64bit app!?) and even when splitting the files into separate channels, it will only force you to use CAF. This is unacceptable in a 64bit world. However, Audition still has a problem when recording where it can lose audio files, so I do much of my recording and mixing in logic.

I’ll test premiere with an old file, but I’m sure it’ll work much the same. So long as the frame counts are the same, the markers will import just fine, and you’ll be happy trails. I don’t recall if FCPx or any other editors actually have this function. But… …IF you export a single set of markers of each type from premiere, you can add markers from other editors via copy\paste into the text file that’s created by adobe software. Once finished, save the file exactly as is, and import it to adobe premiere to add the markers to your sequence. Seems like it would be straightforward enough. Perfect? Nothing is. But this gets very close. If your editor has a similar function, just use a find\replace and make it like the adobe file. Save it and import to your project, it should be useful.

[Manuel Sclavo]

Thank you all so much! You just saved me several hours of work.
This latest script works flawlessly with CC2017 files.