SMILCut 1.99

SMILCut is a graphical timeline editor, useable to synchronize audio or video streams with slides, textual transcriptions, etc...

INSTALL :

- First install Python and wxPython !
- Download the latest smilcut version from :

http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/

- Extract it :

$ gzip -d smilcut-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xf -

where x.xx is smilcut's latest version number.

- Install it :

Go to smilcut's directory :

$ cd smilcut-x.xx

Just type:

$ python setup.py install

You may need to be logged in with sufficient privileges (e.g. root)

This will generally install smilcut in /usr/local/bin or an equivalent path depending on your system, and the modules in /usr/local/lib/pythonX.XX/site-packages/smilcut

- Launch it :

Just type :

$ smilcut

By clicking on the buttons you mark events, when you quit, a file named timeline.slc is created which contains the list of events and when they occured as a time offset since the first click on the Start button.

If you've got a DVCam plugged in, then smilcut also saves the DV's internal timecode in the timeline file, provided you've got the "dvcont" DV control command.

- Add comments to your timeline file :

put them in plain text at the end of each line in the timeline file.

- Generate SMIL files :

use the slc2smile utility which is now included.

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