Rebuild Sequence based on source in/out points of clips on the timeline

[idk_3000]

Hi, I have an issue I for some reason thought would be simple but after much tinkering I'm basically still at square one.

I am receiving an XML from Audition, where a producer edits a podcast.

I can load that audio-only sequence into Premiere no problem.

I have a multicam video sequence that is the exact same length and exact same source timecode as the audio file used to edit the podcast in Audition.

I need basically to rebuild the sequence with video inside Premiere.

Is there a simple way to do this? All the key info is right there, but I haven't come across a way of doing it yet. I looked into ExtendScript but again I can't seem to find a way to retrieve the source in/out points of clips on the timeline and apply that to a multicam sequence object in the project panel.

So any help is much appreciated!

Thanks

[RobShultz]

You may need to add a marker at a matching sync point in the audio and video and line them up. However I am very interested in seeing what other solutions are brought forward for this.

[Stan Jones]

@idk_3000,

I may be missing something, but I think this is the same as Rob's comment. You say you have a "multicam video sequence that is the exact same length and exact same source timecode as the audio file." So what happens if you drag the audio sequence to an empty audio track in the multicam sequence? Sync and you're done, right?

Stan

[idk_3000]

The multicam source sequence is unedited. Does sync work to cut the video up like that?

Alternatively had a thought that I could just modify the XML to use the multicam sequence as the source clip instead of the audio - is that in the realms of possibility?

[Stan Jones]

@idk_3000,

lol. Yep, that's what I missed. 

No magic here. I'd consider putting the multicam in the source monitor, step through the audio sequence, find in the source monitor and add. Repeat.

Stan

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Modifying the XML is 100% outside the realms of supported possibility. 🙂

PPro's ExtendScript API can replace the source projectItem, used by a given trackItem.

[idk_3000 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Bruce, good to know!

For anyone wondering how I ended up solving my specific issue:

Once I have the audio sequence in Premiere via the XML, I used Ivan's script in this thread to replace everything on the timeline with the audio of the multicam sequence.

Then I used AutoHotkey to set a macro to loop pressing 'F' (match frame), '.' (overwrite), and 'Shift + 3' (refocus timeline) to reattach all the video to each audio clip.

[Mathias Moehl]

My (paid) extension Automation Blocks can export the clips of the timeline into a spreadsheet:

and also you can populate a sequence with clips listed in a spreadsheet:

here I extend the approach to also read in-out points from the spreadsheet:

So maybe you could try to
1) export the audio only sequence into a spreadsheet

2) in the spreadsheet batch replace the audio files by the video files

3) import the edited spreadsheet again.

Not 100% sure about your workflow,  but since Automation Blocks can be fullly customized, you can tweak it to your needs.  If you want to put some more effort into it,  you could also create a new block script which skipts the detour via spreadsheet and directly constructs the new sequence based on the audio only sequence.