Importing/loading movie and soundfiles

[kaspar128]

Hello,

I want to use a george-script to import an .avi moviefile into a layer.
I also want to import an audiolayer from a wav file using george.

how can I do this?

[Mike]

Hello kaspar128,

Here is the command to load a video file into a new layer :
_ tv_LoadSequence "file" [start number] [field] ["STRETCH"] ["TIMESTRETCH"]

The command to add a sound track into your clip:
_ tv_SoundClipNew "soundfilename"
into your storyboard:
_ tv_SoundProjectNew "soundfilename"

[kaspar128]

Thanks for the reply,

I tried the ones mentioned above, but none of them seem to do anything.

Could it be the format?
the moviefile is an avi (mpeg4)
and the soundfile is a .wav-file (16-bit little endian)

or am I missing some more commands?

[ematecki]

Can you load them via the File menu ?
If yes it's not a file format problem.

[kaspar128]

It worked!!

I had to replace the backslashes with unix-style slashes in the filepathname...

C:/path/to/file.avi

instead of:

C:\path\to\file.avi

Now I run into another problem:
(edit:)

The pathname were the file is located is very long, and there are spaces in the pathname....

George won't import the file now..
Is there a workaround?

I'm working on windows 7 by the way.

[Mike]

To manage path with spaces, you must encapsulate the path between quotes like this:

tv_LoadSequence "c:/path with spaces/to/file with space.avi"

[kaspar128]

Here is what I tried so far...
I broke the string in parts to make it readable:

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longpath = "Z:/very/Long_path_to/my/Workfolder"
spacedfolder = "/Folder With spaces"
tv_LoadSequence longpath""spacedfolder"/MyMoviefile.avi" "STRETCH"

When the path doesn't contain spaces(as some folders do), the moviefile gets imported.
Isn't there some sort of wildcard/ escape-character I can use to mark the use of spaces?

Anyway, thanks for all the support so far!!
It would be really cool if this works out because it will save me a LOT of time!

[Mads Juul]

Try
'"/folder with spaces"'

[kaspar128]

Alas, I tried the above but it still does nothing..

Is there some console or debug-output somewhere in TVP, to check where it goes wrong?

[Mike]

This should work:

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longpath = "Z:/very/Long path with spaces to/my/Workfolder"
spacedfolder = "/Folder With spaces"
full = longpath""spacedfolder"/My Movie file with spaces.avi"

tv_LoadSequence '"'full'"' "STRETCH"
tv_warn result

Create a 'full' variable which contains all the pathfile.
And in the tv_LoadSequence, you can encapsulate the 'full' variable before and after with '"' (quote double-quote quote)

[kaspar128]

IT WORKED!!!

I must hold my enthausiasm, but this is really cool!!
This really opens perspectives to save a lot of time.
Being able to automate lots of import/export/saving makes people happy!

Thanks for the great support Mike, and the rest of course!

[Mike]