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Exporting EDL from AE – A job for expressions?
Hello all,
I’m trying to do something a bit unusual:
I have a piece of footage in Avid that has trillions of cut, and I need to seperate all the shots. I’ve done it in the past manually go through the footage but I think there is a way to automate this.Useful Assistants from Profound Effects has a cool plugin that is able to identify a cut (cut detector) and it places a layer marker when it founds one.
So I was thinking of exporting my footage from the Avid to AE as a QT Reference file (immediate), run the footage through this cut detector in AE. And then… then I’m screwed, cause I don’t have any way to export the AE timeline with the cuts. I checked on the forums and in the manual, apparently there is no possible way for AE to export EDLs of it’s timeline.
But since these layers markers in AE are probably only very simple timecode references, I was wondering if any of you know a way to access these and export them under a basic text file with the TC of these markers in reference to the AE timeline? Maybe using expressions or a script?
Then it would not be too hard for me to turn this text file into an Avid EDL.
Thanks for your help,
Arnaud
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2 Replies
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It would definitely be faster for you to just cruise through the footage in the Avid adding edits as appropriate.
After Effects knows nothing about timecode, it just counts frames from the beginning of a sequence or the beginning of a footage item.
— Wes Plate
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Thanks Wes,
Good to have an expert from Automatic Duck answer this question.
The problem is that I have to go through these kind of 2 hour shows every week almost… And really when I see how well it works in AE to do the cut detection I feel it’s a pitty I can’t get to the final step of exporting the info from the timeline.
I know a lot of AE infos are accessible through a simple cut and paste action. I was hoping that the timeline info from AE was stored somewhere not necessarly as a standard timecode but still in some fashion that could be easely reformated as TC to create an EDL.
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