How to insert clips on timeline according to timecode?

[Alex Udell]

[Simon Reichel] ” though I’m not sure what you’re saying with “media start of each clip is Sequence in when you perform the edit”.”

if you look at the bin as sorted by the media start column

the first frame of any clip is timecode media start of that media clip

so in your sequence…your MARK IN timecode (in point) for each edit would be equal to the MEDIA start timecode of the clip.

that way your events in your sequence as edited would align with time of day when edited to the sequence, and gapping accordingly where there was nothing recorded.

does that help?

I agree, with some scripting or a utility to edit XML could be done pretty easily.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Simon Reichel]

Yeah that’s exactly what I’d need, sorry for the confusion. But there’s no way to just pull all the clips onto the timeline and have them line up that way, is there? Do you know of a free utility that can do it?

[Oki Pienandoro]

You didn’t read my answer above ?
You can auto-place the video; The video are placed automatically according to their timeline (using Multicam hack). This solve half the problem. You will have multiple video track (100), but you can put them in one track using shotcut key, repetitive, but it was fast.

The audio in the other hand have to do a “manual” thing. But since you can make a macro, so it was semi automatic.

Then all you need to do left is to join the video and audio under one sequence.

Other than that,,..the other solution is to edit the XML project files. Then again, you need to intrepret the timecode, since in Premiere XML, it’s was not plainly written in SMTPE format (CMIIW)

Edit :
Here’s another workaround with the audio.
Merge the audio with timecode as sync point.
You will have multiple audio track, but it was sync according to their timecode, just like the video multicam hack.
Place them under one track with shortcut key, repetitive, but it was fast.

So there you have it, a full automatic workaround (with or without macro).
The only manual thing left is you have to manually put them under one track.

Edit 2 :
I know you already said you use Sony F5, but i came across this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQC0MqqQUSk
Looks like what you need.
Their site is down, but there are copy of their software (freeware)
https://www.videohelp.com/software/DSLRsync/old-versions
https://www.facebook.com/DSLRsync (inactive)
https://www.dslrsync.com (dead)

During install they suggest to install K-Lite, don’t install K-Lite ;its unnecessary (bloated ?) codec pack

Be aware they states that it will override tc, make sure backup your file first before attempting this.
It may not actually work for footage from Sony F5, or maybe it’s just for continuous audio.
I just put it here just in case it works.

Note : I never test this at all, i held no responsibility on any damage of using this software.

Last note, good luck with the syncing, let us know what path you finally took/found !
I’m curious about this myself.
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Sorry for the english, not native speaker.

[Alex Udell]

See Oki’s response

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/965124

this will get you a lot of the way there.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Simon Reichel]

Sorry, what is macro?

[Oki Pienandoro]

Macro is a set of key combination that you do repetitively. You make a “hotkey”.

Hmm..let me rephrase that.
Let say you often do a repetitive task:
You save, you close the project, then you open another one.

With macro, all of this can be done with single button you choose, a hotkey.

Let’s say the hotkey is [Insert], so everytime you press insert, the macro were executed orderly (Ctrl+S,Ctrl+W, Ctrl+O).

To make macro (easily) there are many freeware available. There’s no need to know about the scripting behind all of that.

All you have to do is open the macro program, then tell them to start recording macro. Then you do your usual workflow (preferably a keyboard shortcut rather than mouse), stop recording macro.

After that, you set a hotkey you prefer to execute macro.

I simplified things, there are couple of steps before you execute macro.
Almost all macro program also recording how long you do the task (how fast are you pressing the keyboard key). So if you record slow keyboard key, macro will playback with the same speed.

A good macro program can edit the duration of each keyborad stroke AFTER you finished recording.
This way, you can record carefully, and then you can edit the duration of keystroke at much faster rate on during macro playback.

What i wrote above is just an automatic way using macro.
The point is:
[repeat]
You highlight the audio clip, and choose intrepret timecode. You copy that audio clip time code, switch to the timeline, go to the timeline timecode, and paste the timecode you copy earlier. This will move the playhead to the correct spot. Then you can do audio source insert edit. This will place the audio into their correct timeline.
[Repeat]

Get it?
Choose next clip (down arrow), and press the macro hotkey.
The macro will perform all the steps inside the [repeat].

Also check my answer below, there are audio workaround that didn’t involve macro (but you have to deal with hundreds of tracks ; yet easily solved with keyboard shortcut, a bit repetitive; and yet even faster if you want to do it with macro.)

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Sorry for the english, not native speaker.

[Simon Reichel]

I read your answers. I don’t have time to learn macro hacks or to wreck my shortcuts that I’ve built customly. All I want is an automated way to do this, if necessary then outside of Premiere through another editing prog or a little tool. Thanks for the effort though.

[Jo Hermann]

Hey Simon,

check out SequenceLiner by Andreas Kiel – it might need some work (as it only is working with FCP7 AND there is only a 10.6-version of it) but you might give it a try:

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/sequenceLiner/

I always find Andreas’ XML-handlers very useful!

gl

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