Advanced Metadata Generator for Final Cut Pro
Home Page: https://metaburner.pro
License: MIT License
Metaburner is an Advanced Metadata Generator for Final Cut Pro.
You can download & learn more here.
Running FCP 10.6.10 Audio roles will not be displayed in Metaburner. Knut's running 10.7.1 and it shows up correctly for him.
Here's a test timeline with a single clip:
Metaburner Audio Role Bug.zip
Currently when there is no data available for a text layer it will display "-". I'd love to see an option to turn it off/display nothin at all when there is no data available.
Example: I tag all VFX shots with a marker. 5 out of 100 shots have a marker, but I want Text Layer 01 to display the Marker Name, it is rather disctracting to see "-" on the other 95 shots. I want to place the Metaburner title over the entire timeline as it should display Project timecode on another layer.
Hi,
my name is Luca and i'm an editor for film documentaries, mostly which have Archive footage. And this request is properly related to Archive footage. Consider having already assigned roles to different types of AF. For example, one role to the one coming from Associated Press, one for Reuteres, etc. Usually, when the film is finished, the production must calculate how much AF they have used from each Archive, in order to, i make it simple, pay them the right costs.
It would be great to have Metaburner Pro show me the source of the AF i'm watching and also how long is that portion of AF. It would also be great if i could have from Mteaburner pro, the chance to get a sort of EDL, or Xls file, where i can have all the clip divided by Roles..so i can easly calculate the total for each archive.
Usually, these tasks require lot of time..and it would be great, instead, to have something that can speed up this process. And in FCPX..which would be great considering no NLE around could give such service.
Thanks and have a nice day ahead...
It would be great if you could just "right click" on the text layers in the Final Cut Pro Viewer to quickly change parameters, and maybe even adjust text values, etc. It would be even better if you could drag them around.
I would love to see an option to toggle the Marker type on or off. I use markers for labeling VFX shots and in that case it's rather confusing to display the marker type (Chapter, To Do, etc...).
I've applied keyframed values to a clip. "Scale" doesn't show values for each frame, but remains at "x = 100.00, y = 100.00" through the entire shot. Same applies for "Rotation", "Position", "Opacity".
Sam Pluemacher writes:
Here’s a screenshots with my ideal settings Of course every vendor wants them in slightly different positions on-screen, so if one can re-arrange the displayed fields that would really great. The text in red ist just explanatory. In the second screenshot I’ve highlighted the Resolve Data Burn In options that I’d like to use in Metaburner.
Ability to filter roles - hence include or excluding them as a global setting. Like I want to be able to only show the metadata for the VFX role.
Knut Hake writes:
And to make using metaburner easier... is it possible to fetch the xml of the project where the metaburner title is applied to instead of dragging the project to it? If so, it maybe could also be possible to include an update button!?
When selecting "Markers" it will show "-" for a clip that has a Marker+Notes applied. But it will display the option Marker+Notes correctly.
When selecting "Markers+Notes" and a clip only has a Marker applied it will also show "-".
I should probably use presets, but I havent been able to copy/paste a Metaburner title from one timeline to another or within the same timeline. Sometimes it would be just quicker and easier to copy/paste the title to another section of the timeline. This also doesn't work when I've cleared the "Project Data" before.
Steven Moyer writes via Discord:
My wish list from when I was doing AE feature work:
• Project TC
• Project Name (or text input override)
• Clip Source TC
• Clip Name
• Feet + Frames Counter
• Date
• Watermark Generator (either text input, pull down for selecting recipient department, or both)Variables specific to VFX turnovers:
• Lens information
• Pulldown to specific anamorphic or spherical
• Text input for VFX description
• Effects applied
• Frame countResolve’s burn-in window and FCPs Naming Presets windows are good references
He clarifies on lens information:
I was taking ALE’s from the camera team and using Shot Notes X to bring in any fields I could. At the higher end those ALEs did include lens information. If they didn’t I was taking that info from camera reports and adding it manually so I could communicate accurate info to the VFX teams
Originally proposed in #8
When using the Primary Storyline Content Source, sometimes the first frame of a clip will display no data.
There must be a rounding/maths issue somewhere in the code.
Knut Hake writes:
Would it be possible to extract the text from markers and show them for the entire length of the video clip that contains the marker? With an option to also show the text from the marker notes field from the timeline index? Sometimes it would also be helpful to only show he text from the marker notes field and not the marker text.
For example, Knut Hake wants to ONLY show audio clips that belong to a specific role. How would this work?
For example, I applied Metaburner to a nearly 2 hour timeline of BRAW clips (using BRAW Toolbox), and Metaburner takes a good 30sec to actually render a frame. I THINK this is because we're storing the entire FCPXML internally - and FCPX is taking a long time to read the FCPXML data (and probably processed data), each frame. Will have to investigate if we can do some caching or something.
Knut Hake writes:
Very important would be that the displayed TC is source file TC and not FCP Container ( synchronized clip or Multicam ) TC.
Currently we only support Sync Clips.
Changing the Alignment setting in the Global settings as well as in the individual layers doesn't have the desired effect. The text does not change whether it is set to "Left", "Center" or "Right".
It would be a gread addition if Metaburner was able to analyze compound clips as well. During the editing process we work in reels, so we have Reel 1, 2 and 3 - each around 30 mins - in compound clips and I'd like to skip the process of "Break Apart Item" each time I need to add the metaburner title.
Currently none of these Content Sources actually do anything.
Metaburner is either stuck in "Analyzing Project..." or becomes unresponsive so that the Inspector UI won't update. This happens on a very short timeline with just 5 audio clips, but also on a fairly large 30 min timeline.
Metaburner Renderer - 1.0.2 (30).log
Metaburner Renderer-2024-01-17-165032.ips.zip
Suggested by Sam Pluemacher - it would be cool if you could rename the Text Layers:
Originally suggested in #6
It should list all the effects applied to the active clip, for example:
Alex4D Grow/Shrink, Alex4D SmoothMove, Colour Board
Originally proposed in #8
For example, use Custom Field for the effect name (i.e. "Alex 4D Grow/Shrink") and Custom Text for the Parameter Name (i.e. "Start Scale")?
Knut Hake writes:
For some roles it would be nice to show the role name when a certain role has an active clip. Meaning only displaying the role name but not the filename.
The Settings button in the Controls section currently doesn't do anything.
One thing I know I want to add is ability to "Grant Sandbox Access" so the Lua engine has access to the file system for reading external files, etc.
Matthieu Laclau writes:
When putting a new Metaburner in a timeline, then succeed to load a project… The default preset is yours. So I need to load my user preset. I’m wondering if there’s a way that Metaburner always keep the same preset?
I have to have a think about best way to handle this. It might be easiest/best for people to build their own Motion Templates? I could add an option to load presets after successful import, but loading presets is pretty slow due to the way FCPX works.
Matthieu Laclau writes:
My project is 2048 wide, and when I put a negative x, then the first letters/words on the left disappear. Easy to solve, but worth mentioning.
To solve the problem, I just changed the Position of the adjustment layer in the Transform panel.
Vigneswaran Rajkumar writes:
You might want to add padding option for the text.
The black background is too close to the font text. User could set a padding of 2-5 value to have a nice gap.
Matthieu Laclau requests:
Clipname (like the synchronized clip or multicam clip name), Camera Filename (A004C023 for example), SourceTC, RecTC.
If there could be info about reframing like scale and position would be super nice for the online editor. Maybe one box to say if the clip is stabilized or not.
It should work without the need to break apart clips. And should work with multicam.
That’s what I can think of and if we have that, we’ll be super happy.
"Marker + Notes" display correctly now, but some configurations still return "-" on-screen instead of the markers content.
Currently I've basically just been assuming the clip frame rates are same as the project frame rate. Will need to go back and fix up the code to make sure we do the maths correctly.
FCP crashes when dragging the project containing the Metaburner title on the "Drag Project Here" box. FCP also crashes when trying to export the fcpxml to the Desktop. Removing the Metaburner Title from the Timeline fixes the issue.
...to reset everything to defaults.
On complex timelines (>30mins) frames will be dropped during playback when the Metaburner title is applied. Should I also file this feedback to Apple?!
"primary-storyline-tcFormat" : "Optional(FCPXMLKit.TcFormat.ndf)",
Sam Pluemacher writes:
Just a few additional requests from Knut if they are not already on your list - not sure what's the best way to display it:
- Reversed clips
- Hold Frame
- Retimes
Matthieu Laclau writes:
My intel computers, the image is all red.
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