View Full Version : SceneImport: import chapter lists directly into Scenarist
BassPig
4th February 2013, 06:16
I know this thread is old, but having just moved over to Windows 7 64-bit, the manual chapter entry feature of Scenarist 3.0 causes a program crash. If I could import the chapter list I generated in Premiere Pro CS3, it would save a lot of time, and also avoid the problem when the mouse hovers over the scene timecode entry field crashing the program.
Does anyone know where to obtain this import tool? The links produce a 404 error.
jel
4th February 2013, 06:30
Bass Pig,
I can email you a copy if you PM me an address.
Cheers
Jon
BassPig
5th February 2013, 03:41
Bass Pig,
I can email you a copy if you PM me an address.
Cheers
Jon
Thanks for sending. This program solves both the crash problem (because I don't need to click inside the scene time field) and the tedium of manual entry.
I use an export chapters plugin in Premiere Pro, which makes an html file with the chapters, markers and other stuff. I copy and paste all the columns of info to Notepad, save that TXT file, and import into the Scenarist Scene Import menu in Scenarist, and the program even manages to ignore all the extraneous info in the right 3 columns, while flawlessly reading the scene list in the far left column. Didn't even have to trim out the extra stuff that the Export Markers plug in creates. Works a treat! This is going to save me tens of minutes on each of the more complex titles that I normally would manually enter. What a fantastic utility!
BassPig
10th October 2013, 05:51
It's been a few months since I did my last video project (slow economy), but I am working on one tonight, and have done all the steps I had done in the prior projects, but for some reason, I'm getting the message "0 scenes imported" when I import my chapter list. I even tried stripping out all the extraneous stuff, but it doesn't alter the result. As I mentioned earlier, I cannot enter chapters manually, because Scenarist crashes the instant my mouse pointer goes over the entry field. I can't figure any other way to enter the chapters. Maybe find out which file in the project folder contains the chapters and manually edit it?
My earlier projects had 25 or so chapters. This one has only six. Is there are lower limit to the number of chapters (maybe I don't have enough) before this utility will import them? That's the only difference between the project I did in the spring that went smoothly and this one that refuses to import scenes.
BassPig
10th September 2015, 21:18
I've built a new dual Xeon system for handling 4K video, and have migrated all of my apps to the new workstation, including Scenarist. However, I'm having a problem again with '0 scenes imported' when I open the .chp file with the time codes exported from Premiere CC 2015, the time code is in the exact format that SceneImport requires, yet it imports no scenes.
I've tried clicking on the audio track, the video track, and the sequence in the track editor, but none of these work. The menu for "import chapter" is there and I can select it, get a dialog box to load the CHP file, and even load it, but it imports nothing, despite there being a dozen lines of time codes.
This is baffling, because sometimes the programmed works and sometimes, after a long period of non usage, it refuses to import anything. I even tried checking "convert from non-drop frame.." option, but nothing works.
I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, just as I was in 2013 when I last had this problem. But I'm pretty sure it worked under Win 7 in the past.
I'm thinking it's got to be something stupid like operator error. My CHP file is formatted right, so what else could I be doing wrong?
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