Can it be done programmatically? Yes. A number of ways. Is it worth it? Almost certainly not, even if the OP had the skills or finance to fund it. How? At the simplest level you want to get from =========== Example: Cut Vid1 - 01:22-03:14. ============ to =========== X= 82 Y=194 Z=Y-X ============ you also (for easy relinking) need to know start timecode (eg S = 10:00:00:00) of video you are inserting and the In & out timecodes for the intro & outro (used random numbers with 1 min duration below) You can then produce (for every XX and YY value parsed from the word document): =========== 001 INTRO VAA C 12:22:16:11 12:23:16:11 00:00:00:00 00:01:00:00 002 VIDEO VAA C (S+XX) (S+YY) 00:01:00:00 (00:01:00:00 + ZZ) 003 OUTRO VAA C 21:18:11:10 21:19:11:10 (00:01:00:00 + ZZ) (00:02:00:00 + ZZ) ============ (No guarantees that EDL is cmx 3600 compliant, been a long time since I’ve looked at an EDL.) Import the EDLs. Relink pointing INTRO & OUTRO to correct sources and VIDEO to the new video. No frames handled this way which means you are likely to get ugly edits & it’s prone to errors from the word document. Plus, unless you have a *lot* to process there’s not a lot of time saved. ———— I do import an EDL and use automation (using keyboard maestro on a Mac, I’d use AHK if on a PC) regularly for one thing though. Producer will give me a rough cut they’ve done from camera 1 of a multi camera shot interview. Having built the multicam clip I recreate their cut, having loaded EDL as an offline sequence as follows: 1. Clear source monitor and load multicam group & rough cut (so I can use keyboard shortcuts to switch between the two sources) 2. Switch to rough, go to next edit, tab to timecode, copy 3. Switch to multicam, tab to timecode, paste, mark in 4. Switch to rough, go to next edit, jog back one frame, tab to timecode, copy 5. Switch to multicam, tab to timecode, paste, mark out, overwrite to sequence Seems more complicated than it is but allows me to replicate what might be 100 edits in a few seconds. I have to use this every week so it was worth figuring out. Similarly I regularly add audio transitions to smooth edits that might be 1,2,4,8,16,32 or 75 frames long. Whilst waiting for Adobe to give us better audio translation dialogue Ive just got a bunch of keyboard macros that modify the default transition, add a transition then return it to the default. Use those all day every day.
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