• Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

    From Alan Gauld@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 13 22:32:25 2023
    Forwarding to list

    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
    I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 23:33 Alan Gauld via Python-list,
    <python-list@python.org <mailto:python-list@python.org>> wrote:


    On 12/06/2023 10:26, Real Live FootBall Tv via Python-list wrote:

    > I did it because I was going to use it with another application, A
    VIDEO
    > EDITING APP, Auto EDITOR but it didn't work for some reasons
    unknown to me.

    You need to define "didn't work"
    Did it work as a python interpreter?
    ie. Did you get a >>> prompt in a terminal?
    and without involvement from your video editor?
    If so, what did you do to link it to the video editor?
    And what was the result?

    Or did Python not even start? How did you try to use it?
    What OS are you on? Did the installer run OK?


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  • From Thomas Passin@21:1/5 to Alan Gauld via Python-list on Tue Jun 13 19:06:39 2023
    On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
    I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor works
    on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files.
    Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other
    editors using XML in some way (according to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different
    thing completely.

    I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file" since
    from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

    The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods of
    dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file. Their documentation shows how to do
    it. If it were me, I would run the example command line on a sample mp4
    file, then see what it looked like in Davinci. Is that what you did?
    It should be the same video but with some dead space removed.

    (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of
    these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).

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  • From gene heskett@21:1/5 to Thomas Passin via Python-list on Tue Jun 13 21:43:28 2023
    On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
    I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor works
    on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files. Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other editors using
    XML in some way (according to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different
    thing completely.

    I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file" since
    from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

    The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods of
    dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file.  Their documentation shows how to do it.  If it were me, I would run the example command line on a sample mp4 file, then see what it looked like in Davinci.  Is that what you did? It should be the same video but with some dead space removed.

    (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of
    these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).



    auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of
    it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

    Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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  • From Thomas Passin@21:1/5 to gene heskett via Python-list on Tue Jun 13 22:17:45 2023
    On 6/13/2023 9:43 PM, gene heskett via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
    I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor
    works on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files.
    Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other
    editors using XML in some way (according to Wikipedia,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different
    thing completely.

    I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file"
    since from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

    The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods
    of dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file.  Their documentation shows how
    to do it.  If it were me, I would run the example command line on a
    sample mp4 file, then see what it looked like in Davinci.  Is that
    what you did? It should be the same video but with some dead space
    removed.

    (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of
    these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).



    auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of
    it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

    Oh, there are, there are - mostly intended for document authoring, I think.

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  • From avi.e.gross@gmail.com@21:1/5 to gene heskett via Python-list on Tue Jun 13 23:49:14 2023
    I think it is time to ask this topic to go find some other place to talk to itself.

    I have seen NO reason to think any question about problems with Python has been asked. Not properly.

    It sounds like someone messed up an installation, perhaps of other programs like an editor and some unspecified thing does not work. I suggest they start over and be careful so that if some specific version of Python is needed, it gets installed in the
    right place and so on. We here cannot be expected to have much idea about programs that perhaps we do not use.

    Python can be used to build an editor, or parts it runs when needed, and it can be used to create or consume XML, or do things with audio formats. So can many other languages. If it was needed here and the setup was wrong or sabotaged, that is not
    something easily handled here.

    Or did I miss something? If so, I know others here also missed it too.

    If there is a more specific problem like some lines of actual python code not doing what was expected, please share that specifically with enough detail.


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    From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com@python.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Passin via Python-list
    Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 10:18 PM
    To: python-list@python.org
    Subject: Re: Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

    On 6/13/2023 9:43 PM, gene heskett via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here.
    I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor
    works on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files.
    Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other
    editors using XML in some way (according to Wikipedia,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different
    thing completely.

    I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file"
    since from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

    The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods
    of dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file. Their documentation shows how
    to do it. If it were me, I would run the example command line on a
    sample mp4 file, then see what it looked like in Davinci. Is that
    what you did? It should be the same video but with some dead space
    removed.

    (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of
    these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).



    auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of
    it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

    Oh, there are, there are - mostly intended for document authoring, I think.

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    https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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  • From Real Live FootBall Tv@21:1/5 to python-list@python.org on Thu Jun 15 08:58:57 2023
    I have followed the instructions given on how to install the app. What I
    needed was an application to cut of silence from my video and I saw auto
    editor demonstrated as one of the applications that could do that. It does
    cut the silent areas of an MP4 format video for instance but would save it
    as a XML file which in turn would be exported to the video editor that
    supports the output from the auto editor app. The one who demonstrated it
    in a video used Davinci Resolve to import the XML file, I followed same
    process but I couldn't get same result.
    Thanks for all your contributions.

    On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, 04:52 AVI GROSS via Python-list, <
    python-list@python.org> wrote:


    I think it is time to ask this topic to go find some other place to talk
    to itself.

    I have seen NO reason to think any question about problems with Python has been asked. Not properly.

    It sounds like someone messed up an installation, perhaps of other
    programs like an editor and some unspecified thing does not work. I suggest they start over and be careful so that if some specific version of Python
    is needed, it gets installed in the right place and so on. We here cannot
    be expected to have much idea about programs that perhaps we do not use.

    Python can be used to build an editor, or parts it runs when needed, and
    it can be used to create or consume XML, or do things with audio formats.
    So can many other languages. If it was needed here and the setup was wrong
    or sabotaged, that is not something easily handled here.

    Or did I miss something? If so, I know others here also missed it too.

    If there is a more specific problem like some lines of actual python code
    not doing what was expected, please share that specifically with enough detail.


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com@python.org>
    On Behalf Of Thomas Passin via Python-list
    Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 10:18 PM
    To: python-list@python.org
    Subject: Re: Fwd: AUTO EDITOR DIDN'T WORK

    On 6/13/2023 9:43 PM, gene heskett via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/23 19:10, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 5:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
    Okay thanks. Meanwhile, I am not tech savvy so I may not say much here. >>> I followed all the commands as given on the website to install auto
    editor standing it on python but after rendering the XML file, I
    couldn't open it with my Davinci Resolve 18. I uninstalled and
    reinstalled about twice and still no success hence I uninstalled it.

    I don't understand when you talk about an "XML file". Auto-editor
    works on video files, or at least .mp4 files, which are not XML files.
    Davinci Resolve does have some ability to interoperate with other
    editors using XML in some way (according to Wikipedia,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve) but that's a different
    thing completely.

    I also don't know what you mean by "after rendering the XML file"
    since from what I can see auto-edit doesn't render anything.

    The simplest thing that auto-editor can do is to cut out long periods
    of dead space, e.g., from an mp4 file. Their documentation shows how
    to do it. If it were me, I would run the example command line on a
    sample mp4 file, then see what it looked like in Davinci. Is that
    what you did? It should be the same video but with some dead space
    removed.

    (Note that I'm speaking from a place of no experience with either of
    these software packages; just looking at what auto-edit claims to do).



    auto-edit? Never heard of it. xml? I've written hundred of kilobytes of
    it in plain old geany. I didn't know there was a special editor for xml.

    Oh, there are, there are - mostly intended for document authoring, I think.

    --
    https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

    --
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  • From Alan Gauld@21:1/5 to Real Live FootBall Tv via Python-li on Thu Jun 15 10:25:24 2023
    On 15/06/2023 08:58, Real Live FootBall Tv via Python-list wrote:
    I have followed the instructions given on how to install the app. What I needed was an application to cut of silence from my video and I saw auto editor demonstrated as one of the applications that could do that. It does cut the silent areas of an MP4 format video for instance but would save it
    as a XML file which in turn would be exported to the video editor that supports the output from the auto editor app. The one who demonstrated it
    in a video used Davinci Resolve to import the XML file, I followed same process but I couldn't get same result.

    It looks like you have three parts to this puzzle:
    - auto-editor
    - resolve
    - Python

    It's not clear which part isn't working but you can at
    least test Python is working after you install it
    by running the interpreter in a console/terminal
    window by typing python at the command prompt.

    If you get the Python prompt:



    Then Python is installed OK.

    After that it's back into auto-editor and resolve and this is
    not the best place to get answers for those. Resolve at least
    has an active support forum, so I'd start there(assuming
    python works!)

    --
    Alan G
    Author of the Learn to Program web site
    http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
    http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld
    Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos

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  • From Real Live FootBall Tv@21:1/5 to Alan Gauld on Fri Jun 16 20:30:00 2023
    Thanks, I'll look into it.

    On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 10:25, Alan Gauld <learn2program@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 15/06/2023 08:58, Real Live FootBall Tv via Python-list wrote:
    I have followed the instructions given on how to install the app. What I needed was an application to cut of silence from my video and I saw auto editor demonstrated as one of the applications that could do that. It
    does
    cut the silent areas of an MP4 format video for instance but would save
    it
    as a XML file which in turn would be exported to the video editor that supports the output from the auto editor app. The one who demonstrated it in a video used Davinci Resolve to import the XML file, I followed same process but I couldn't get same result.

    It looks like you have three parts to this puzzle:
    - auto-editor
    - resolve
    - Python

    It's not clear which part isn't working but you can at
    least test Python is working after you install it
    by running the interpreter in a console/terminal
    window by typing python at the command prompt.

    If you get the Python prompt:



    Then Python is installed OK.

    After that it's back into auto-editor and resolve and this is
    not the best place to get answers for those. Resolve at least
    has an active support forum, so I'd start there(assuming
    python works!)

    --
    Alan G
    Author of the Learn to Program web site
    http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
    http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld
    Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos




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