How to convert PT Markers from Text / Script?

[Eternitas]

Hi @ all,
I`m doing postpro work for a client (Film overdubbing). I´m getting the script as text files, for example like this:

00:00:02
text text text text
text text

00:00:29
text text text text
text text
and so on.


Is it possible to convert the Time informations into markers / file splits / whatever to import into PT? Tried EdiMarker, but with no success (text has to be in a special format, and it´s impossible to re-write 90 pages before converting)... Thank you for your inputs!
Regards,
Eternitas

[its2loud]

You can try this but the text will still need to be formatted correctly.

http://petegates.com/pg-pt-session.html

[quadraphonics]

Edimarker might be able to help with this too.

Originally Posted by Eternitas

Hi @ all,
I`m doing postpro work for a client (Film overdubbing). I´m getting the script as text files, for example like this:

00:00:02
text text text text
text text

00:00:29
text text text text
text text
and so on.


Is it possible to convert the Time informations into markers / file splits / whatever to import into PT? Tried EdiMarker, but with no success (text has to be in a special format, and it´s impossible to re-write 90 pages before converting)... Thank you for your inputs!
Regards,
Eternitas

[Pete Gates]

Yes I think both options - mine and Edimarker, have quite strict requirements. I need to look at this at some point as a colleague of mine needed more flexibility with this recently. Won't be happening imminently though I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Pete

[Eternitas]

Hmm, yes, I thought I could somehow go around this requirements. I´ll try again, perhaps I find a workaround. Thank you for your inputs!

[Eternitas]

Finally, I found a way to work this out with EdiMarker. But: Really tricky!! (open original Textfile in Excel, filtering time informations from script with excel rules and filters, copy them to a new excel file, insert dummy names in column 1, convert time informations in column 2 to exact timecode format so that EdiMarker would recognize it, export as txt in right format (NO empty fields!), convert to MIDI File in EdiMarker, import in PT as Markers). A lot of try and error, but it finally worked!

[papalou]

You could probably do all the excel job with a small sed/awk script. Need a little practice, but can save many time.

[Sonopolis]

Originally Posted by Eternitas

Finally, I found a way to work this out with EdiMarker. But: Really tricky!! (open original Textfile in Excel, filtering time informations from script with excel rules and filters, copy them to a new excel file, insert dummy names in column 1, convert time informations in column 2 to exact timecode format so that EdiMarker would recognize it, export as txt in right format (NO empty fields!), convert to MIDI File in EdiMarker, import in PT as Markers). A lot of try and error, but it finally worked!

I found TextWrangler really helpful for this kind of work.