[Art Thomas]

I can’t figure out what the purpose of Prelude is. I tried the demo, but It seems to be like everything else and not allow multiple sub clips to be imported.

I even spoke with the techs at CATDV, and they couldn’t help. Gave me some ideas but they didn’t work.

Not to happy about this whole thing. Seems like Adobe is not giving a user capability to extract clips or even to get clip info without making it very difficult.

I give up…for now.

[Art Thomas]

Hi,
I tried importing an XML file created in PremierePro, but got an error. Something about “content is not allowed in prolog”. I am using the trial version CATDV PRO and it might not allow it. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Art Thomas]

Hi Alex,
Is it XML or XMP that we need to export from PPro?

[Art Thomas]

Great! Thanks.

I was also looking at Adolbe Bridge. Can’t get the Premiere clips (I call them virtual clips) into that either I guess.

[Art Thomas]

Hi Alex,
Sorry about the confusion.

The last one. Source files with sub clips. In and out selections.

Hope that helps.

[Art Thomas]

Forgot to mention. The clips are not project oriented. They are standalone , that’s why a database type program is needed.

[Art Thomas]

Hi Alex,
I want to be able to do two things.

The first is to be able to search the clips for tags that describe different attributes of the clip. There are many different tags that can select just one clip. This is the database aspect. Maybe 2 or maybe 10 clips will come up for review for one or multiple tag words.

The second is to be able to scroll/ view through the selected clips to see if a particular one satisfies the requirement for selection. Premiere cs6 does a nice job of letting you do this, but has no data base ( ie. search capability using tags).

It stands to reason that Premiere would have to export a clip to generate an actual clip file that can then be used in many different programs because Premiere maintains source file integrity. But, exporting, then importing into another program and trying to keep up with new clips, and deleted or modified clips will become unwieldy very quickly and create a nightmarish sync problem. My hope was there is some way of using Premieres virtual clips directly.

I guess I would like to know how commercial studios catalog their massive amount of clips for easy retrieval.

Thanks for listening. I hope I was able to provide some clarity of my objectives.

[Art Thomas]

Cat DV might work if it could somehow take the clips out of Pemiere and insert them into Cat Dv without having to export them first from Premiere. From what I have read, things can be taken into Premiere, ie. imported, but not go out unless again, they are exported. So it has the same limitations as I described before. If someone knows better, then please let us know.

Great suggestion, thanks.

[Art Thomas]

Thanks Ann. That is what I am doing. Just that many times I read a new article or on forums and “they” talk about “ideal” fps which seems to be different depending on who you talk to. After awhile it does get confusing. I will stick to what I am doing.

[Art Thomas]

Thanks for the info Angelo. I tried what you suggested. The EDL file does contain lots of great info. Unfortunately, it is not easy to decipher even with Excel. I even used WORD. It take a lot of work to get the data into a working form for me. Although, the info is there and at least I can pick an choose some things.

Thank you for your assistance.