Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

[Thomas Passin]

On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
> Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
> I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
> editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
> couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
> reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor works 
on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files. 
Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other 
editors using XML in some way (according to Wikipedia, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different 
thing completely.

I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file" since 
from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods of 
dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file.  Their documentation shows how to do 
it.  If it were me, I would run the example command line on a sample mp4 
file, then see what it looked like in Davinci.  Is that what you did? 
It should be the same video but with some dead space removed.

(Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of 
these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).