Read FCPX-XML and Movie file to create thumbnails for each clip on the timeline.
This is a personal project to learn python and to solve some day to day tasks for vfx editorial. Tested on MacOSX only.
The script will search for text overlays for each clip to define the file naming. If no text overlay is found, it creates a generic file name.
- Export one timeline to FCPXML 1.6
- Export one quicktime movie
python thumbit.py myproject.fcpxml mymovie.mov
Optional:
-dest [path for exported thumbnails]
-ext [file format for thumbnails (jpg, png)]
- Python 3
- FFMPEG
- CV2
- Support for drop frame formats (eg 29,97fps)
- XLS export: Tumbnail, Shot Data.
- No support for FCPX exported from Adobe Premier
- No support for drop frame formats