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Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by hammeiam »

alok-g wrote: post #74
hammeiam wrote: post #9

I've spent some of my free time over the past couple of months working on something similar. It's in a decent state but I need help from somebody who understands the .fcpxml format so you can export your edits to Davinci and FCP. Take a look at https://matcha.video

Looks useful. Does it export as a video file itself (e.g., mp4)? Thanks.

Right now it exports a .fcpxml file which you would import into you editor (davinici, final cut etc) which includes all of the cuts you made. And from there you could move things around, add effects, do color grading, whatever you need to do to get to a final product.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by emadda »

j4nt4b wrote: post #80
emadda wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I should add a "download as .txt". What do you typically do with the text on export? E.g. Do you parse the times?

In my videography work I often do a separate audio-only interview to use as voice-over for the final video. I like to print out a transcript, mark the highlights, then go to the sound file and extract the snippets I liked. Extracting the snippets is a lot easier when I have timestamps printed out inline with the text at intervals of one or two minutes. In the case of bigWav, there were timestamps marked at only three…

Two features that may help in bigwav:

1) You can add more timestamps by adding paragraphs with enter.

2) You can playback at any word by highlighting it and pressing space. You can also cut with right click on the wav ui.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by skeskinen »

hammeiam wrote: post #9

I've spent some of my free time over the past couple of months working on something similar. It's in a decent state but I need help from somebody who understands the .fcpxml format so you can export your edits to Davinci and FCP. Take a look at https://matcha.video

Hi, matcha.video looks very cool! I'm working on https://smartmediacutter.com which has some overlap in functionality. I'd love to have a chat about matcha and if you have any plans for commercialization, etc.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by skeskinen »

bluelightning2k wrote: post #31

A genuinely free alternative to Descript sounds very useful. I've always liked the idea of Descript and was considering building something similar before it came out. The problem is my use case is a couple of videos a year so doesn't fit with an expensive monthly subscription

I don't know if perpetual free trial fits for your definition of genuinely free, but I'm trying to build a competition for Descript at https://smartmediacutter.com/

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by DidYaWipe »

kajecounterhack wrote: post #76
poincaredisk wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, I didn't read it as condescending. This I understood it as a generic statement ender, like "idk" or "ymmv" or "i guess", i.e. something that you put at the end of a sentence when you don't know what more to say. Maybe it actually is generational?

Thanks that was my understanding too, but I hurt the boomers with "whatevs" lol If it makes y'all feel better my gen alpha kid will hurt my feelings in different ways and get revenge for you =_=

Boomers?

There may be 80-year-olds on here, but younger people don't have to buy your lame excuse either. Learn something and move on.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

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Post by kajecounterhack »

DidYaWipe wrote: post #85
kajecounterhack wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks that was my understanding too, but I hurt the boomers with "whatevs" lol If it makes y'all feel better my gen alpha kid will hurt my feelings in different ways and get revenge for you =_=

Boomers? There may be 80-year-olds on here, but younger people don't have to buy your lame excuse either. Learn something and move on.

Whatevs reply guy
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