![]() But when I am a sole editor and the choice of software is mine, I go with FCPX. If I need to work with multiple editors accustomed to Premiere, then I switch to Premiere to accommodate their workflow. My response – “Which software would you like me to use?” Most of the time, the response is indeed a rhetorical question, as I’d prefer to use a software that best fits the job. In my editing career, I’ve been bombarded with clients’ questions about which software I use. A lot of decisions are made based on what operating system you’re using and its specifications, the type of capture media and codecs, post-basic editing needs, deadline, etc. Most professionals acknowledge that there is no one definitive tool to rule all projects. Would it be worth putting in a feature request for expanding the XML spec with something to support image sequence in Premiere (and any other software that utilizes the same or similar concepts), or is the XML Import feature a "closed chapter" ? I suspect it's probably the latter, since there has been no updates to the XMEML spec in years from Apple's side, and it's not likely there will be since they have long since switched to FCPXML instead.Before reading this article, I’d like to point out that I’m a fan of most professional NLE software (Avid, Premiere, DaVinci, FCPX). That would explain why there is no way to tell Premiere to import as image sequence when doing an XML import. Thanks Bruce, I will look into the ExtendScript toolkit, it sounds very useful (debugging scripts is definitely a hassle otherwise!)įinal Cut Pro does indeed not have the concept of an image sequence - in their world, every image is imported separately and placed on the timeline in a, well, sequence - which of course is also what happens "behind the scenes" when you render an image sequence - but the lack of an image sequence as a distinct entity is probably why no provision for it exists in the XML format. I have not seen anything in the PPro Panel code to re-interpret footage - would that be utilizing "replace media" instead?Īlternately, I might want to look into creating an interface for the editors to take in specific numbered clips based on some parameters they provide (which is basically the same thing the XML file was doing), but all done with the SDK - any pointers on where to start with checking the local filesystem - things like Directory.GetFiles() from C# ? I really would prefer not to use the standard "select file" dialog to pop up for each, since we're talking 10s or even 100s of clips. I will be conducting some trials with FCP later today, just to check. I did try to create numbered stills clips, and exporting as FCP XML, but even if I re-import that same file it will appear as Still Image rather than numbered stills - presumably because the "numbered stills" concept isn't part of FCP XML, or at least not the version that Premiere exports (Premiere still uses FCP7/XMEML instead of FCPX/FCPXML, I believe?). Especially since I'm starting to suspect the solution will come from using the SDK. Yes, sorry about that confusion with the posting location - I originally posted it in the "main" Premiere forum, but it attracted no answers, and anyway I suppose that this is more of a technical question rather than a Premiere usage question. Hi Bruce Bullis, thanks for your replies so far. I tried manually importing an image sequence into premiere and exporting the result as FinalCut XML, but if I re-import that file, it also gets imported as a Still Image, so no help there. Since the (sample) XML is very short, I also included it here (the real file has a few hundred clips, they all behave the same way). It feels like it's only a small change that's required, but I have not been able to find any information on it anywhere. The path to the file is correct, and the first frame does show up just fine. It almost works - but when I import this XML file into premiere, it imports the first file in the sequence as a Still Image rather than an image sequence. I'm trying to make life a bit easier by generating an XML file to quickly import a number of image sequences into a Premiere Pro project (PPro 2017.0.2 in case it matters).
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