xml import.

ushere wrote on 11/29/2004, 10:27 PM
if someone out there can sort this out for me, i'll buy them dinner, or send then a food voucher!

i have a couple of clients who send me long, handwritten edls. (these are for long form doco's, which i compile and then fine cut.)

the edls are usually along the lines of

tape no / tc in / tc out, etc. (the etc is uniportant!)

with my es7 i simply call up my clip editor, type in the details, hit enter, go to next edit, repeat till end of list. i then simply tell the es7 to digitise tapes (with a 2sec added head and tail just in case), and off it goes, stopping only to ask for a new tape. automation heaven.

using vegas to type in tapes, tc's etc., is a bloody nightmare, and no way i can see of adding the extra 2sec safety margin without it becoming part of the actual edit.

is there anyway of compiling an xml edl for vegas outside of vegas - spreadsheet, punchin calculator, whatever? i'll forgo the extra 2sec if necessary...

make my day, in fact, make my life,

leslie

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/29/2004, 10:43 PM
I think you will find the "Clip Logger" which is a part of the Veggie Tookit from Peach Rock Productions will probably do <nearly> exactly what you are looking for.

Dinner would be cool. I presume you meant a "Mortens" style rather than McDonalds :-)

Liam <will work for food> Kennedy
nickle wrote on 11/29/2004, 10:51 PM
"Mortons"
You want salt for dinner?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/29/2004, 10:54 PM
Er... edited previous post... Salt with my steak is more like it!
busterkeaton wrote on 11/30/2004, 12:30 AM
I once was at a party with a friend's new girlfriend who had several tattoos. She asked me if I had any tattoos and I said I was going to get the Pepperidge Farm logo on my back, but then I stopped liked their breads. She looked like she was going to punch me in the face. She got about two inches away from and said, "Are you making fun of me?" I had no idea was she talking about and then I found out she had the Morton's Salt Girl tattoo on her forearm. I told her, "I guess I was inadvertently making fun of you."

I don't see that friend too much anymore.
ushere wrote on 11/30/2004, 3:10 PM
have just downloaded it. i'll try it out on my next major project (maybe jan...) and see how it goes. the only hassle is i'm using 4, and a demo of 5. hopefully 5 will last long enough to try it out, otherwise i'll just have to buy it anyway....

so, what can i say other than:

a. mortens in oz is the name of a fly / insect repellant - don't think it tastes too good...

b. should i buy you a mac on speck, to be followed by something more serious later if it works out ;-) ?

finally, how come i haven't read too much about peach rock on the group?

all the very, very best,

leslie
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/30/2004, 4:23 PM
Do a search for "Veggie Toolkit" here and you'll see quite a few references to it.

Insect repellant may have seemed quite a cool thank-you to send someone who a) lives in Minnesota and b) it's summer time... as neither of those are relevant in my case... I think I'll pass.

But... you can buy me a mac anytime.

Liam <will work for cheap food> Kennedy
nickle wrote on 11/30/2004, 6:40 PM
Are you talking G5?
rmack350 wrote on 11/30/2004, 6:44 PM
Take a look at the clip logger in the Vegie toolkit:

http://www.peachrock.com/software/downloads/veggie-toolkit/download.html

I use this all the time to take in log files and capture based on them. Sounds like it'll do what you need.

Rob Mack
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/30/2004, 6:49 PM
Hey Rob... just go back up 7 posts...and you'll see that was the answer I gave already.

Liam <you won't get MY big mac so easily> Kennedy
rmack350 wrote on 11/30/2004, 10:06 PM
Yeah but my motto is "respond first, ask questions later".

I use the clip logger tool to import the same logs we use for media100. I'd been wishing for a tool like this for the last three years so I'm deeply indepted to Randall. Just this afternoon one of my coworkers asked about a shot and because all the clips were captured with names from the log I was able to find it in about 10 seconds. It was pretty satisfying.

It's good to see so many people using the Vegie Toolkit!

Rob Mack
ushere wrote on 12/3/2004, 7:42 PM
liam, let's start off with a mac, on the download demo - but you're heading for a kfc, already;

am talking with randall from peach, and he's very approachable, and extremely helpful. apparently he's working on a newer version that will have a few more extras in it, at which point, we're talking soup and pudding as well....

again, many thanks

leslie