Modifying Timecode With XML

[Illya Laney]

I meant to say “The offline material has different timecode than the source media so the EDL from editorial doesn’t work in Resolve.”

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[Joseph Mastantuono]

Is it all offset by an hour or something? Or all completely off? If it’s all completely I think you’re just in for a painful conform.

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[Illya Laney]

I’ve read that you can modify clips/quicktimes in the XML documentation, but there’s not any more info than just a quick reference.

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[Joseph Mastantuono]

I have had friend who are a bit more comfortable with coding than I am write simple Find & Replace scripts with a little math in it for a program that got telecine’d with timecode exactly 10 minutes off.

You can just open the XML in text edit, but at that point it’s most often fast to just do a visual match in FCP. Although since I’ve done loads of conforms from scratch from projects with no timecode, I’ve got really fast, so YMMV…

I would look into seeing if you can open the XML in some sort of Spreadsheet software. I remember using excel to let assistant producers log with a HDV deck back in the days of tape, and getting that into FCP. There were even scripts that could convert the files into XML’s. You *might* get some sort of mileage out of that workflow.

Please post your results if you find anything.

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[Rohit Gupta]

If this is just a timecode offset on the source clips, you can add the clips manually to the media pool with the offset (in frames), and then load the XML choosing to not import the media automatically.

Hope this helps!