Read text file with keyrecord and generate a multi cam timeline

[jb-alvarado]

Hello,

at the moment I search for possible solutions for our issue.

The situation is, that we have a setup with 2 to 4 cameras in our studio. Over blackmagic Atem we make a live cut and later we use the life cut and the recordings for our production.

Now I would like to make a key logging on the live cut computer, with an output look like:

13:18:20.418	3
13:18:20.602	[space]
13:18:20.778	1
13:18:20.866	[return]
13:18:20.930	2

[...]

The the logged text file I want to process with an premiere plugin and generate out of it a multi cam timeline with our recordings from the cameras.

It have some hurdles, like all clips must be sync, and I need to define the first cut, to get the relative time to the time code from the text file.

I fly a bit over: Welcome to the Premiere Scripting Guide! — Premiere Pro Scripting Guide 1.0 documentation , but I have not found commands for multi cam and cutting functions.

Do you think this is possible with an javascript extension? Or this needs to be done in c++?

When it is only possible with c++, do you know professional programmers who can program such a plugin, and what do you think the effort would be in hours?

Regards

Jonathan

[Trevor_Asq]

A few folks have made this in the past. Sniff tallies or serial port and create an AAF. (Sony had it back in the day on their linear edit controllers.)

Bouke at video toolshed has something - https://www.videotoolshed.com/other/livecut/

EVS have Directors Cut - that’s not going to be cheap though. I think ToolsOnAir or Softron have a version.

You also might want to ask the JustMacro guy at Atemuser.com - they may have something...

I believe there’s a guy in Greece who owns the patent on it so doing it commercially can cost.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There's no way to create a multi-cam timeline, via API, in PPro.