Importing & Exporting

CuePoints imports cue lists from spreadsheets and from console files, and exports them back out again.

Everything here works on the current track. Select the track you want before you start.

Before You Import: Match The Offsets

CuePoints imports cues that fall within the track's timecode. A cue at 10:00:05:00 lands on a track running from 10:00:00:00; the same cue will not land on a track running from 01:00:00:00.

So check two numbers first:

• the timecode offset on the track (Cmd+E), and

• the timecode in the file you're importing.

Get those to agree and the import does what you expect.

Importing From A Spreadsheet

File > Import CuePoints From File (Cmd+Shift+I), then either:

• To Current Track Comma Separated… for a .csv

• To Current Track Tab Separated… for a tab-delimited file

CuePoints then shows you the file's columns and asks which column is which: timecode, cue name, cue ID, fade time. Match them up and import.

Cues at exactly 00:00:00:00 import correctly.

Importing From A Console

Same menu:

• To Current Track MA2 Timecode XML…: grandMA2

• To Current Track MA3 Timecode XML…: grandMA3

• To Current Track Hog4 Cuelist XML…: HOG 4

Export the timecode show or cuelist from the desk as XML, then import it here. The offset rule above applies just the same.

Reading Cues Off A Video

To Current Track From OCR (Cmd+Shift+O) reads cues off the text burnt into a video: a recording of the show with the cue numbers in the corner of the picture.

You draw a box around each piece of text, tell CuePoints what each one is, and it steps through the video building your cue list.

It has its own article: Reading Cues From Video.

Exporting Cues

File > Export… (Cmd+Shift+E) writes your cues out. Formats include grandMA2, grandMA3 and ETC Eos, so a cue list built against the recording can go straight onto the desk.

Exporting Audio

File > Export Audio File has five options:

• LTC Only…: just the timecode, as an audio file. Feed it to a machine that needs to follow the show without any of your sound.

• LTC Striped Left…: your track audio with timecode on the left channel.

• LTC Striped Right…: the same, with timecode on the right.

• Audio Only…: the track's sound with no timecode.

• Export Primary With Overlay…: the primary media as video, with your overlay burnt in.

The two striped options are what you hand to somebody who has one stereo player and needs both the sound and the timecode from it.

Export Primary With Overlay is how you produce a watchable copy of the show with the cue names and timecode on the picture; the version people can actually take notes from.