Bulk Visual Event Import Overview

Introduction

Bulk Visual Event import from other platforms is supported in a variety of file formats, and is done using File > Import Events From File.

Wherever possible, all text formatting is maintained, including text colour.

Automatically Mapped Formats

The following formats allow for automatic mapping of the contents of the file to the correct Visual Cue properties fields in Video Sync:

• .srt SRT Subtitle format
• .stl STL Subtitle format

Pro Tools Session Info as Text (.txt) & Netflix TTAL import are only supported with ADR Master.

Upon importing these format cues, Video Sync will parse the file and display the content in a fixed table-like manner.

For these formats, Video Sync can clearly identify how the information contained in the file should be used- as it is clearly defined by one standard layout where information about the actor, text, notes, etc can be found for each cue - so the table’s column headings are locked, allowing for quicker, easier & safer import.

Suggested Manually Assignable Mapping Formats

The following parsable but less standard formats, offer suggested logical mapping of the contents of the file to the correct ADR Cue properties in Video Sync - with the opportunity to manually correct any mismatched field headings before importing:

• .csv Comma, Semi Colon or Tab Separated text files
• .tab Tab separated text files

.xlsx Microsoft Excel import is only supported with ADR Master.

Upon importing these format cues, Video Sync will parse the file and display the content in a manually editable table-like manner.

For these formats, Video Sync can only guess what information it may contain (using keywords in the first line of the document) - so the resultant column mapping may not always be correct. In these instances, the table has a dropdown menu on each column, which lets you map the information a column contains to the correct property for each event (e.g. start timecode, text, comment, etc). For easily-parsable formats like ADR Studio XML, these dropdown menus will be pre-selected with what Video Sync thinks is correct. Though it is still advisable to scan through the columns and make any corrections to the heading columns if needed.

Other formats such as Microsoft Word .docx & .pdf are only supported with ADR Master.