Automator based Application for extracting Chapters with timestamps out of an FCPXML project file for usage in an YouTube videos description.
This work is based on Thomas Goodwin's gist "Final Cut Pro X FCPXML Parser". You can find his work at: https://gist.github.com/btgoodwin/6d9a252527495bb566fa So - thanks Thomas for your great work and for sharing it with us!
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
FCPX-Chapter-Extractor Automator workflow internally uses a python script. So you need to have python2 installed on your system. You can check if you already have python installed by typing '''python''' in Terminal.
Just
- double click FCPXML-Chapter_Standalone.app
- click button "Add" and select your *.FCPXML file
- click button continue
- Edit file name to your liking and hit select path where the chapters should be extracted to... (as a *.txt file)
- click continue button. DONE
Double click on "FCPXML-Chapter_Automator_QuickAction.workflow" and accept installing it as Quick Action. Don't forget to activate the QuickAction in your macOS System Settings / Extensions / Finder ! Right click on any *.fcpxml file and click on "Extract FCPXML Chapters" in the context menue. DONE
Just right click "FCPXML-Chapter_Automator_workflow" and choose open with/Automator.app or just double click it to run it with Automator.