Steven Gonzales
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I think the name column has to be first, or you’ll get an error.
I tried it with reel first, got an error, moved name to first position, it imported.
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Do you mean fonts in titles?
You could export an xml of the sequence, find the font size tags by opening up the xml in a text editor, then global replace the font size tags with the new font size, then reimport the xml to Final Cut Pro.
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Another way to use the import wizard in Excel is to tell it each field takes up a certain number of characters.
Since I believe an EDL is always an 80 character line of text, this approach should get your fields in the right column.
You can turn your cut into a batch list by selecting all the clips in the cut, and dragging them to a bin, then exporting a batch list. However, this doesn’t give you their timecode location in the cut sequence. I’ll have to ponder this for a while….
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Tell the EDL to open with Excel. This should trigger the import wizard. Say that your data is delimited (seperated by a certain character) and check that “space” is the character.
This should set your timecodes in the same columns, and you can delete the columns you don’t want.
If you know someone with text parsing knowledge of PERL or similar language, you could export XML and have them write a dandy little parser to give you what you want.
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If you want to break down a long clip, open in the viewer and put markers where you want each section to start.
Then you will notice that in the browser, these appear under the clip when you twirl open the triangle next to the clip name.
These can be made to subclips by dragging somewhere else, or you can just double click the marker in the brower to open up that section in the viewer.
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You may already know this, but if you mark a clip with markers, you can drag or option drag (copy) those markers to another bin, and they all turn in to subclips.
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If you ever have to change a parameter that won’t go with “paste attributes” (such as a sub-category) you can export XML, find that parameter in the XML file, and global change it there. Then re-import the XML, and you’ll have the change on all those clips.
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I’d try taking one of your original 44.1 kHz files, and open it with Quicktime, then export as 48 kHz (converting there instead of an FCP sequence), and see if syncing that to it’s video makes a difference with drift.
Also check the bit rate of the originals (how many bits are in the audio samples, usually 16 or 24) and see if that remained consistent throughout the workflow.
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If you can’t rename the hard drives to the same name, you could send XML around, and for each different system create a script (applescript, PERL, whatever) that performs a global search replace across the XML for the drive names.
You could also do this in a text edit program with search and replace, if you got the context exactly right.
But that is a lot of trouble.