[Steven Gonzales]

Without writing a program, I’m not sure of an easy way. There’s good search and select features in the XML editor EditiX from https://www.editix.com/ There’s a free version.

If you didn’t mind locating every clip with motion effect, and placing the info in a marker, then there’s an easy tool for extracting marker information to text: either XML2Text https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/XML2Text/index.html

or readXML

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/readXML/index.html

[Steven Gonzales]

Yes, XML will contain the information. They will be under a tag” name Basic Motion /name”.

EDL is just the bare essentials.

[Steven Gonzales]

If you pull down the Help Menu, then the Final Cut Pro User Manual, and search on Audio Scrub, you’ll find an explanation.

If you look under the view menu, you’ll see Audio Scrubbing, and shift S as the keyboard shortcut.

Don’t know why you couldn’t find it, but hope this helps you out.

[Steven Gonzales]

Final Cut is not scriptable. You could probably use applescript to give you the length of a quicktime, and then pass that to XML, but you’d have to pretty adept at both Applescript and some text processing language (Perl?).

Have you considered Traffic from xmEdit. That might do what you want:

https://www.xmedit.com/

[Steven Gonzales]

Now that I’ve saved you 9,000,000 years, you definitely need to get familiar with the Final Cut Pro tool palette, because it has a lot of useful time savers.

[Steven Gonzales]

You can get better answers on this forum if you use the proper names for Final Cut windows. I don’t know what you mean by the arrange page.

Are you referring to the timeline? If you are going through the timeline, and cutting out the parts you don’t want in the montage, you are probably selecting those parts and hitting delete.

If you hit shift delete instead, then the gap created will close up during the delete.

You probably should spend some time on the Final Cut Basic forum, so that you can get to know the proper nomenclature.

[Steven Gonzales]

There’s no easy way to display auxiliary timecode in the Canvas. You could go into each clip, and if you uncheck the main timecode, and leave the auxiliary timecode checked, the auxiliary will appear in overlays (BUT you will lose your original timecode).

You could add a timecode generator to each clip, and set that to aux timecode, and then you could see the aux in the burn in and the normal timecode in the overlay, but that is a lot of work.

I’m glad to assist someone in Berlin, because I’ve never been there, but two movies I edited were successful at the Berlin Film Festival, “George Washington” in 2000 and “Shotgun Stories” in 2007.

[Steven Gonzales]

I don’t quite understand. If you have a 29.97 master, and you will finish at 29.97, wouldn’t it be easier to edit at 29.97?

[Steven Gonzales]

If you have merged clips in your timeline, and you make a copy of that timeline, and delete the video and the orig video audio track(s) leaving only the sync audio, I believe you will get the audio timecode in that EDL.

[Steven Gonzales]

I think if you match back to a merged clip, you don’t match all the way to the original. I believe the merged clip serves as a new master clip. Both your methods of syncing are creating merged clips.

If the original audio timecode was on the file when it came into Final Cut, you should still have it. Check Edit menu, item properties, format and see if the audio file information is on there.

As far as getting LTC timecode from an audio track, there is a tool for that:

https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=26