Dailies and offlines with audio

[Tony Lorentzen]

Has anyone figured out the best way of creating offlines or dailies with audio from files rendered out of Resolve (with no audio)? I was wondering if there was some great tool that would enable me to batch-merge something like a ProRes file with a wave file based on timecode or something.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated :-)

I'm currently looking into possibly using ffmbc but we'll see how that works out. Hoping there's a better solution than command line tools.

Thanks

Tony

[Steve Sherrick]

http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/Sync-N-Link/

[Alexander Ibrahim]

Ingest with Premiere (this is the "original")
XML to Resolve
Base Grade
Render in "source mode"
XML to Premiere
copy paste audio from original Premiere sequence

You can use several variations on that. You can do the same in FCP.

When I am down after my current project I think I can work out how to get Premiere to replace footage with the Rendered Resolve source mode stuff, but right now copy/paste works.

Of course ... this is another step, in another program.

I do wish the Black Magic/DaVinci folks would add connected audio to Resolve. I don't care too much about controlling audio ... but if a video file has audio, they should play it, and they should export it with out altering it along with renders.

[Dustin Cross]

Tony,

Here is a little shell script I wrote to do exactly what you want. It takes the rendered video from Resolve and merges the audio from the original. It is very fast.

################################################## #
#!/bin/bash


clear
echo "Filenames must match for audio and video"
echo -n "Where are the Quicktime video files : "
read -e video
echo " "
echo -n "Where are the Quicktime files with audio : "
read -e audio
echo " "
echo -n "Where should I write the new Quicktime files with audio : "
read -e loc
echo " "


for FILE in $(find -s "$video"/*.mov -type f 2>&1) ;

do
FILE2=`echo "$FILE" | awk -F / '{print $NF}'`
FILE3=`echo "$FILE" | awk -F . '{print $1}'`
muxmovie $video/$FILE2 -track "Video Track" $audio/$FILE2 -track "Sound Track" -self-contained -o $loc/$FILE2 ;

done
exit
################################################## #


It uses QTCoffee, so you need to get that and install it.
http://www.3am.pair.com/QTCoffee.html

If it doesn't give you timecode in the result file, you might need to tell it which file to get timecode from. Something like:

muxmovie $video/$FILE2 -track "Video Track" -track "Timecode Track 1" -track "Timecode Track 2" $audio/$FILE2 -track "Sound Track" -self-contained -o $loc/$FILE2 ;

It would be very easy to have it pull audio out of a Red QT wrapper.

As will all my scripts, test before you use it.


Dusty

[Tony Lorentzen]

Dustin - that is too cool. I'll test it out today and get back to you. Thanks so much for sharing!

[Jose Lomeña]

Thanks!!!
Is possible to do the same with pro res 4444?

[Tony Lorentzen]

Jose - I just did a quick test with video from a ProRes422 and audio coming from ProRes4444 (from the Alexa). Works fine. My plan is to wrap this into an OSX app and share it for free with my fellow REDUsers :-)

[Dustin Cross]

I just edited the script to take out the references to h264. This works with any quicktime files. The Quicktime file with audio needs to be the same length as the graded file without audio.

I should redo this with a GUI, but it is so easy to edit the script as needed.


Dusty

[Tom Gleeson]

Wow if that shell script could be given a GUI I would be happy to buy a copy

[Tom Gough]

I just edited the script to take out the references to h264. This works with any quicktime files. The Quicktime file with audio needs to be the same length as the graded file without audio.

I should redo this with a GUI, but it is so easy to edit the script as needed.

Dusty

I envy how effortlessly you work with these scripts Dusty - awesome stuff!

You should really start packaging up your scripts all with GUIs and sell them. Maybe call them "Dusty Tools". ;)

Either way keep on truckin. :thumbsup:


Wow if that shell script could be given a GUI I would be happy to buy a copy

+1

All the best,

[Jose Lomeña]

+1.

[Martin Widerberg]

+1
thank you

[Matt Ryan]

This is awesome! Anyone build a GUI app for this?