hey all -

is there any way to script or automate the cutting of a clip or set of clips in the timeline by time code?

I'd like to be able to put together a text file with, for example, time codes for every ten seconds:

00.00.10.00
00.00.20.00
00.00.30.00

etc. and have the selected clip or track cut on those marks.

I've done similar process in dvd authoring software where it allowed importing of chapters from a text file; I'd love to be able to do the same with video in Kdenlive.

any ideas?

thanks!

- housepig

What are you doing after you "cut" the clip at 10 sec intervals? Cutting does nothing if you then do not splice it.

ttguy -

I am using this as a quick & dirty start point for doing multicamera edits - I record concerts sometimes with a couple of stationary cameras and one roaming camera, and doing a regular split of two of the sets of footage allows me to get started playing around with the edits faster than going through in multi-view mode.

- housepig

If you look in the .kdenlive project file you will note it is an XML document.
It has a playlist section. Which you can hand edit. A playlist section like this gives a cut every 10 seconds in a 25 frame per second source file.

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 <playlist id="playlist5">
  <entry in="0" out="250" producer="3"/>
  <entry in="251" out="500" producer="3"/>
  <entry in="501" out="750" producer="3"/>
  <entry in="751" out="1000" producer="3"/>
  <entry in="1001" out="1250" producer="3"/>
  <entry in="1251" out="1500" producer="3"/>
 </playlist>


You could script up something to write such entrys. You could write a formula in a spreadsheet to write this code for you for example.

ttguy -

Thanks for the info - I think I can work with that. I've got some more multi-cam shots coming up next week, when I get down to editing them I'll try this out.

- housepig