How to Export Individual Tracks in Fuse Davinci

SirEdric wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:53 am If you know of a way to create those CSV files offline, ...

Instead of working my way through the Resolve manual, I did a thing over the weekend. Please, take a look:

https://github.com/limstepf/fbase

It's a little python script I've called "Filter bank (automation) signal extractor", or Fb(a)se in short. And it pretty much does what I've been talking about (see README.md on github, there are also some pictures). There's probably still plenty of room for improvements, but it's a start.

If you guys got some time, you'd be welcome to give it a try. And let me now what you think.

SecondMan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:56 pm For Suck Less Audio, I'm not sure I see any benefit from moving the data conversion outside of Fusion to be honest. You would end up with an additional external file, which may not be any faster to read either. I'm also not convinced of the idea that using a .csv file is better suited as the store of data.

It's not about the file format (which probably doesn't matter too much), but about the automation data itself. All the samples in a WAV file are simply not needed to automate things at 24 FPS, so the signal needs to be downsampled anyways. If you just go ahead and skip every other sample, you're basically implementing a crappy low-pass filter, so a more clever approach would be nice to get clean and consistent automation data. Point being, for this you'll have to examine all the samples, and that's not necessarily something you'd like to do on the fly, but just once.

Please go ahead, and check the output of Fb(a)se. The produced CSV files include a frame number, the corresponding time in seconds, and then columns for the extracted signals which are normalized to [0.0, 1.0], such that further scaling is as simple as it gets. Do you think that would work already? Or would you also need a proper timecode (which can be tricky in some case, from what I'm aware. But there is probably some library that would do that for me...)?

SecondMan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:56 pm You're right in saying that there is ample room for further analysis, like deriving frequency data, but that was not what SLA was designed to do.

Fair enough. Simple things are nice. I wasn't really suggesting that you change SLA. No, I'd rather see a new, similar, but more generic tool that reads data from CSV files (or other file formats), and offers a nice interface to use the parsed data as modifiers.

SecondMan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:56 pm I have also been developing another modifier called Time Machine.

Awesome. I'll have a closer look at it. But from what I can tell, that's exactly what I'll need. You think I'll figure out how to use it, or is there some kind of manual, or tutorial around somewhere? Well, guess the thread you linked to would be a good starting point.

SecondMan wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:56 pm break it down into its separate constituents and provide those as separate building blocks.

Agreed. Modular is the way to go.
Carry on.

How to Export Individual Tracks in Fuse Davinci

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