Excalibur Export Selected Clips

Maui

Hey,
I just discovered the Export - Selected Clips Option in Excalibur which looks pretty handy. I created 2 Export presets in Media Encoder and the Export works fine.
However the names changed into file name_00000, file name_00001,.... and they are also exported into the folder I had to specify in the Media Encoder Ingest Preset(otherwise I wouldn't be able to add the format options) and not the folder I chose whithin Excalibur.
How can I keep the current clip name and Export into the folder I have chosen within Excalibur?
Thanks

Sir_Ivan

@Maui you can create user command with "Export Selected Clips" command in it and customise output folder and names for files.

Maui

Hmm interessting. I will take a look at it. Or is there a tutorial somewhere on how to set this up?

Sir_Ivan

Maui
here is an example with "Export Media" command, which works the same way for "Export Selected Clips"
https://youtu.be/ecZ-UA3zavw?t=265

Maui

It worked fine but there are3 things that are strange.

Everytime I enter the Excalibur settings it shows me the first Export preset in the list and not the one I have selected. It still exports it into the format I have chosen but it can be a bit misleading if I see the "wrong" entry there.
The Relative path didn't work for me here. It still exports it into the folder I specified in the creation process of the preset.
Even if I only select the Wildcard #Clip for the name it still adds _00000 to the end of the clip
Is there something I can do about this? Thanks

Sir_Ivan

Maui Everytime I enter the Excalibur settings it shows me the first Export preset in the list and not the one I have selected. It still exports it into the format I have chosen but it can be a bit misleading if I see the "wrong" entry there.

This is a bug and it will be fixed in next update.

Maui The Relative path didn't work for me here. It still exports it into the folder I specified in the creation process of the preset.

What export preset do you use, is it still an ingest preset? I've just tested ingest preset and it seems that output path can't be overridden by Excalibur, so you need to use encoder preset.

Maui Even if I only select the Wildcard #Clip for the name it still adds _00000 to the end of the clip
Is there something I can do about this? Thanks

Oh, I actually hardcoded that behaviour. I wonder why I did so 🤔. Will change that in next update!

p.s. next update will come out in about a week.

Maui

Sir_Ivan What export preset do you use, is it still an ingest preset?

Yeah I used an ingest preset as I didn't know that there is a different way. How would I use an encoder preset?

Sir_Ivan Oh, I actually hardcoded that behaviour. I wonder why I did so 🤔. Will change that in next update!
p.s. next update will come out in about a week.

Sounds good to me 😃

Sir_Ivan

Just create an encoder preset in Media Encoder. If it doesn't show up in Excalibur, just press ctrl+s (cmd+s) in Media Encoder. Nothing will happen visually, but presets will be refreshed in Excalibur.

Maui

This worked fine. Thanks 🤘

Would it also be possible to add the option to also create a render folder when the Relative option is selected(in Cinema 4d I have the option to use f.e. ../Footage/Render/ which will go up one folder, look for a folder Footage, go into this one and find the Render folder and than render everything into this folder. If the folder doesn't exist it will create those itself and than use Wildcards to fill in the rest)? Now it just saves the new video next to the project file, which is fine and it can be manually moved but it would be a bit less manual work 😉

Sir_Ivan

I made this option for Compass, so I see no reason not to add it to Excalibur 🙂
Thank you for a suggestion!

albertocasanova

Hello, @Sir_Ivan I also think is a good idea to create an non existent relative path on Excalibur before exporting. It's a very sad sight when you use an export command on Excalibur and go to eat or something and return just to find AME gave me an error because didn't find the relative folder.

Thanks!