Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

[Thomas Passin]

On 6/13/2023 9:43 PM, gene heskett via Python-list wrote:
> On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
> auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of 
> it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

Oh, there are, there are - mostly intended for document authoring, I think.