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Chris Plapp
December 18, 2012 at 1:53 pm in reply to: bulk method for attaching source media file to thousands of imported clips via tab delimated text file

That would be appreciated and a wonderful tool in our workflow that will make CatDV even more useful.

I have tried several variations of the CatDV XML file and nothing will properly import the IN/OUT points for each sub-clip.
Chris Plapp
December 17, 2012 at 8:12 pm in reply to: bulk method for attaching source media file to thousands of imported clips via tab delimated text file

We can correctly see the IN and OUT points in CatDV if I import a simple tab delimited text file.

I don’t understand why the CatDV XML format does not work in the same manner.

The problem with this method for us is that we would have to manually attach the correct source media file for every batch of clips we want to create.

We are not creating the clips in CatDV, we are importing predetermined in and out points from a database of ours, that have been represented on the web as embedded cue points. We are trying to take those virtual segments and turn them into physical video clips.
Chris Plapp
December 17, 2012 at 3:00 pm in reply to: bulk method for attaching source media file to thousands of imported clips via tab delimated text file

We removed the BOM and the file will now import, but it ONLY imported the 1st clip for every video.

It also changed all of the IN/OUT points and ignored what is included in the attached XML file.

For example, 10381_01 imports with the duration being the length of the source media file, 16 minutes. It ignores the 16 second start time and 3:18 end time.
Chris Plapp
December 14, 2012 at 5:43 pm in reply to: bulk method for attaching source media file to thousands of imported clips via tab delimated text file

Thanks Bryson.

I know our workflow is a little unorthodox, but we are basically attempting to reverse engineer video clips from metadata.

You see all the sub-clips in my file because we are attempting to create the MP4 sub-clips using CatDV. Each full video has at least 5 sub-clips, sometimes more.

Can we change the format of the XML file I am ingesting to trick CatDV into thinking they are all full videos and still accomplish what I am trying to do?
Chris Plapp
December 14, 2012 at 4:26 pm in reply to: bulk method for attaching source media file to thousands of imported clips via tab delimated text file

I still can’t get this to work via Tab delimited.

We have also attempted to recreate the CatDV XML file format as well, but when I attempt to import the new XML file using File -> Import As -> CatDV XML, we get the following error every time:

“CatDV XML Batch File… – org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing.”

Here is a link to the file we are attempting to import:

5078_cvodcatdvxmltestcp.xml.zip