STV Import: Video Editing for Sage

[mickp]

Hey Bob,

I just gave 0.2.3 a quick run and all appears good. I'll go edit and process a few more shows later to confirm.

Mick.

[banmj]

Bob,
I just installed this and when I go to specify the video redo directory, the box comes up empty with nothing to select. Thanks for your work.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by banmj

Bob,
I just installed this and when I go to specify the video redo directory, the box comes up empty with nothing to select. Thanks for your work.

Try importing it a second time. Others have reported this problem but I cannot duplicate it. Also make sure when you extract the files the the JAR file is replaced.

Only things I can think of.

BobP.

[banmj]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Try importing it a second time. Others have reported this problem but I cannot duplicate it. Also make sure when you extract the files the the JAR file is replaced.

Only things I can think of.

BobP.

Thanks Bob that did it.

[mickp]

Hey Bob,

I've been doing some more editing and haven't been able to find any situation where the dirty flag doesn't work correctly. Well done.

I went for a poke around today to see if I could understand what's going on in studio (it's still a bit confusing in there for me btw) and worked out that I could change DisplayControls=true to false as in the screenshot below to have the mouse controls not appear by default in fullscreen. This works well for me as I don't have to toggle off the option every time I go into fullscreen edit mode. Do you think it's worth adding this behavior as a config option?

I've been taking a look to see how I might go about adding a send to Video Editor option to sagemc but it's apparent that I will need to actually read some of the studio docco before I can work this stuff out Do you think this would be a difficult to accomplish in a rough, hack, proof of concept kind of way?

Mick.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by mickp

Hey Bob,

I've been doing some more editing and haven't been able to find any situation where the dirty flag doesn't work correctly. Well done.

Great!

I went for a poke around today to see if I could understand what's going on in studio (it's still a bit confusing in there for me btw) and worked out that I could change DisplayControls=true to false as in the screenshot below to have the mouse controls not appear by default in fullscreen. This works well for me as I don't have to toggle off the option every time I go into fullscreen edit mode. Do you think it's worth adding this behavior as a config option?

I could add this to another maintenance version (0.2.4). Version 0.3 is coming along but it is still going to be a while (maybe a month) before I have it finished.

I've been taking a look to see how I might go about adding a send to Video Editor option to sagemc but it's apparent that I will need to actually read some of the studio docco before I can work this stuff out Do you think this would be a difficult to accomplish in a rough, hack, proof of concept kind of way?

No but you will have to disable some code in the "before menu load" hook in the Video Edit Menu. As I purposefully close the current video that is playing when I load the menu. Also you will probably want to change it so that it starts up in full screen mode. I'll see what I can do for this as well. Next weekend though.

BobP.

[mickp]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Great!
I could add this to another maintenance version (0.2.4). Version 0.3 is coming along but it is still going to be a while (maybe a month) before I have it finished.
No but you will have to disable some code in the "before menu load" hook in the Video Edit Menu. As I purposefully close the current video that is playing when I load the menu. Also you will probably want to change it so that it starts up in full screen mode. I'll see what I can do for this as well. Next weekend though.

BobP.

Thanks Bob,

Much appreciated.

Mick.

[tmiranda]

Bob,

I have a request. I've used this plugin and like it a lot for when I want to edit out commercials using the remote control. Many times I just use VideoReDo from a client computer to do the editing. One thing I can't do using VideoReDo directly is replace the original recording with the edited one.

Any way you can put out a small application that just replaces one file with another? I would find this really useful.

Thanks for the consideration.

Tom

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Any way you can put out a small application that just replaces one file with another? I would find this really useful.

Tom, I just use a small batch file

echo off
if not exist "%~dpn1 (02).mpg" goto end
touch -r %1 "%~dpn1 (02).mpg"
del %1
ren "%~dpn1 (02).mpg" %~nx1
:end
echo end

After editing with VideoReDo, and saving using the default filename (with the (02) name) right click on the original MPG, select Open With / Choose Program and browse to the batch file you've created. From then it will show up in the Open With list.

John

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Bob,

I have a request. I've used this plugin and like it a lot for when I want to edit out commercials using the remote control. Many times I just use VideoReDo from a client computer to do the editing. One thing I can't do using VideoReDo directly is replace the original recording with the edited one.

Any way you can put out a small application that just replaces one file with another? I would find this really useful.

Thanks for the consideration.

Tom

You can edit from a client that has VideoReDo installed and replace it now with this plugin (replace is an option). Or do you want to do it with ones that you have already edited? If so version 0.3 will allow you to associate a video to an airing in the SageTV database. It will not be out for a month as it is a complete rewrite of the current underlying code. It will allow you to take the airing associated with your unedited file and reassociate it to the imported video that has been edited. This will of course make the unedited video an imported video but you can then just delete it whenever.

BobP.

[BobPhoenix]

New maintenance release v0.2.4:

No fixes this time but a couple of quick feature additions:

• Added an option to the options menu (Display Options) to hide the controls when toggling to full screen mode
• Added menu item to the OSD menu to goto the VideoEdit menu with the currently playing video as the selected menu
• (SageMC only) Added menu item to the SendTo menu to go to the VideoEdit menu with the currently selected video.

If you have any problems let me know.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Added menu item to the OSD menu to goto the VideoEdit menu with the currently playing video as the selected menu

Cool: I was about to ask for that

(Ps thanks for this plugin: it has been on my todo list for years: Now I can cross it off )

[mickp]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

New maintenance release v0.2.4:

No fixes this time but a couple of quick feature additions:

• Added an option to the options menu (Display Options) to hide the controls when toggling to full screen mode
• Added menu item to the OSD menu to goto the VideoEdit menu with the currently playing video as the selected menu
• (SageMC only) Added menu item to the SendTo menu to go to the VideoEdit menu with the currently selected video.

If you have any problems let me know.

Yay. Thanks Bob.

Mick.

[talonmike]

Bob,

I don't know ath I have done, but since I intsalled the last version of sage, the button under the mouse is blank in your video edit plugin.


Look at the attachment.

After downgrading to 6.1.3 the problem is gone. There is a problem with 6.1.4.
Thanks

[BobPhoenix]

Sorry I noticed that on a couple of my other plugins. Not positively sure what has been changed in 6.1.4 but I do know how to fix it in most cases. I'll see what I can do for this but it is likely to be Wednesday or later for a fix - sorry.

BobP.

[talonmike]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Sorry I noticed that on a couple of my other plugins. Not positively sure what has been changed in 6.1.4 but I do know how to fix it in most cases. I'll see what I can do for this but it is likely to be Wednesday or later for a fix - sorry.

BobP.

Thanks Bob. Let me know when your new version will be available. I am using your plugin very often.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by talonmike

Thanks Bob. Let me know when your new version will be available. I am using your plugin very often.

New version uploaded that will give you button text with SageTV 6.1.4. That was the only change. If you see any buttons that are missing text let me know but I think I got them all.

BobP.

[talonmike]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

New version uploaded that will give you button text with SageTV 6.1.4. That was the only change. If you see any buttons that are missing text let me know but I think I got them all.

BobP.

thanks it worked.

[joe123]

Need help with cutting out commercials.

I have everything installed and I have ShowAnalyzer and DirMon2 for commercial dectection.

I load a file, it sees the commercials marked as red, I then select "Cut Files", "Delete the Selected Format Cut file" and then I confirm with "Are you sure you want to delete cut files". I select "yes" and nothing happens.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what this does. Does this take a movie and get's rid of the commercials or not? So that I end up with one file with no commercials?

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by joe123

Need help with cutting out commercials.

I have everything installed and I have ShowAnalyzer and DirMon2 for commercial dectection.

I load a file, it sees the commercials marked as red, I then select "Cut Files", "Delete the Selected Format Cut file" and then I confirm with "Are you sure you want to delete cut files". I select "yes" and nothing happens.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what this does. Does this take a movie and get's rid of the commercials or not? So that I end up with one file with no commercials?

What you did was just to delete the edl file by doing that. You need VideoReDo to actually cut the commercials from the file. Without it you can adjust the cut points to make them more accurate but that is it.