Add clips to T/L using their timecode.

farss wrote on 3/23/2014, 6:47 AM

I had camera set to timecode = time of day.
Maybe 50 to 100 clips. I want to automate adding these to the timeline such that the clips are placed on the timeline according to the timeline's ruler timecode e.g. if the clip's start timecode is 10:01:38:21 then it will be put at that timecode on the timeline.

I can do this manually, one clip at a time.
Is there anyway to avoid this tedium?

I quickly looked into Timeline Tools and Ppro, no help from either.

TIA

Bob.

Back to post

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 3/25/2014, 1:39 PM

Yes John, You posted the same link i posted a few back! :)Yikes! Here I am, giving Bob grief for forgetting about a conversation four years ago, and I can't remember your post from one day ago.

The great thing about getting old is that most people give you a pass when you are dumb: "Ah, there goes Grandpa again ..."

johnmeyer wrote on 3/25/2014, 1:42 PM

On Absolute Frames...I just want to point out that when you're looking at Absolute Frames, its a measure of timeline frames, not media frames. The Absolute Frames count depends on your project's framerate. It's a minor distinction but take from it what you will.That's a really good point: if you put 24 fps into a 29.97 fps project, the frames will end up being fractional numbers. Therefore you can definitely still get into roundoff errors. This usually can be corrected by the running the Quantize to Frames script, followed by a Remove Gaps script.

rmack350 wrote on 3/25/2014, 2:49 PM

if you put 24 fps into a 29.97 fps project,

Actually, that was close to the situation that made me look at it. I was testing 23.976 footage that was actually 29.97 with pulldown. The timecode displayed in Project Media was not identical to what was displayed in Edit Details. It's a trivial difference since the timecode is the same down to the second, but the frame counts are different.

For Bob's purposes this doesn't really matter.

farss wrote on 3/25/2014, 4:32 PM

[I]"The great thing about getting old is that most people give you a pass when you are dumb: "Ah, there goes Grandpa again ..." "[/I]

Well I'm not a Grandpa yet :(

The alarming thing is I had to dig hard into my brain's near line storage to even recall what project it was that caused me to start that thread. Now that I've got it back online I know why I'd forgotten about it, the effects of heat stroke.

The other thing is I rarely use scripts although I have just about everyone ever mentioned here in a folder on my NAS and that's a LOT of files.

Bob.

rmack350 wrote on 3/25/2014, 6:37 PM

The other thing is I rarely use scripts..

My feeling about scripts is that they should do something more than I could do with just Vegas. If I have to figure something out rather than run a script, that's knowledge gained.

Unfortunately, I think we've demonstrated that knowledge gained is easily forgotten, so a script that encapsulates a handful of easy steps is a good crutch.

Rob