[Cin] export_edl patch

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

and another update:

should put in edl  same title as you can see in main cin. window
plus do not make overly long ( > 999 events ) edl...

On Sunday, May 30, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> oh, sorry there was crasher in my patch!
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> if you paste silence and try to export edl it will crash..
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> new version doesn't do this
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> On Sunday, May 30, 2021, Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sunday, May 30, 2021, Andrea paz via Cin <cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your patience in always showing me what to do. I have
>>> compiled, but "Export to EDL" keeps giving me the same errors.
>>>
>>> Maybe there needs to be a way to indicate the path to the original
>>> files used? The first lines of the EDL file I created are:
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>>
>> yeah.... but i tried to mimc what openshot and blender do - they add
>> comment (starting from *) where you list your source...
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>> https://www.openshot.org/static/files/user-guide/import_export.html
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>> see example here...
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>> may be put all source files in same folder as EDL and export from this?
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>>> TITLE: Cinproj   FORMAT: CMX 3600 4-Ch
>>> FCM: NON DROP FRAME
>>>
>>> But the title I gave the project is not Cinproj and neither is the
>>> title of the mp4 file I used in the project.
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>>
>> interesting question - should this title come from videotrack name or
>> some other place? (user-editable may be?)
>>
>> right now this line is hardcoded...
>>
>> i saw * Format  1080 p 24fps  (as comment, on new line) again at this
>> page:
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>> https://xmil.biz/EDL-X/EDL-X.shtml
>> you can find huge pdf file describing this cmx format at this site (half
>> of file about diskette / floppy format those systems used!)
>>
>> may be those high-end editors just accept/create/interpret those comments
>> equally?
>>
>> Try to edit your edl file until at least one other NLE accept it - then
>> tell us about what was wrong with Cin's file?
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