Clip Organizing Need

bstep1 wrote on 1/28/2005, 6:53 AM
I have a series of video clips split in to events that I have identified with markers by name

Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Person 1
Person 1
Person 4
Person 3
etc 16 total people that I have marked clips for along with some clips that are marked group

I know there is a script to randomize clips in Excalibur. Is there a way to sort these clips by marker name?

Person 1
Person 1
Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Person 3
Person 4
Group
Group

I need to quickly pull all of the clips for each person together and I have multiple tapes so a script that could do this would be a huge timesaver.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or scripts!

Comments

jetdv wrote on 1/28/2005, 7:22 AM
What if you just put all the "Person 1" on track 1, "Person 2" on track 2, etc... You can then use Gap Wizard to bring them all to the front of the timeline and then readjust from there.

Of course, this really IS what the media pool is designed for.
bstep1 wrote on 1/28/2005, 11:01 AM
That was my plan, but I will end up with 16-20 tracks and I figure it will get pretty cumbersome trying to drag and drop the clips across that many tracks. I have 3 or 4 projects that I could use this on, so I thought there might be a way to use a script to move the clips. Could they be moved via a script?

I have never explored the capabilities of the media pool - how would that help?
jetdv wrote on 1/28/2005, 2:24 PM
Yes they could if the script had some way of knowing which was which. A marker won't really work as that's a track level, not event level, indicator.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/29/2005, 7:23 AM
> I have never explored the capabilities of the media pool - how would that help?

Rather than marking them, split the clip and right-click and choose Create Subclip. Then name the subclip Person 1, Person 2, Person 3, etc. Then sort them in the media pool.

~jr
bstep1 wrote on 1/30/2005, 8:15 PM
Ended up numbering them 1Name - 9Name, AName-GName and used Excalibur Multi-cam to pull them one at a time to the master track. I named the track 1, ran multicam, then named the track 2, etc. Then used gap wizard to close them up and copied to a new project in a 2nd instance. Sounds complicated, but I was able to pull the clips for 16 people in about 15 minutes. Would have taken an hour or two to do them manually. Another use for multi-cam!