Cinema Tools/ ALE - bad workflow workaround?

I've got this student film, and they digitized the tapes as just a play-through. They have these ALE/telecine logs, but if I import them and try and re-connect I lose the ins and outs. Probably because they aren't in and outs but as the database sees them as beginning and ends of the file.

I could probably hack an xml, is there a proscribed way. If I can avoid clipping each of these clips manually it would be great.

For edification:

I open the ale using cinema tools and then exported an xml, which should have then been imported in FCP and used to batch the clips.

can i ask do you need the ALE / CT database to help complete the film?
or was getting the ALE just a neat thing that you wanted to use to batch capture the clips?

if the latter, then it's a drag, but not too much of a drag

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I open the ale using cinema tools and then exported an xml, which should have then been imported in FCP and used to batch the clips.

simpler, i think, in FCP you can just "import Telecine Log" and import the ALE directly into FCP.

anyway, you can use that.
lay those offline clips out in a timeline,
overlay the whole-tape captures so the timecodes match up,
right click on it and choose "make independent clip"

then quickly step though using the down arrow,
and control v to "blade" up the capture,
rename the clip as you go according to the ALE clips.
(this wont work without the "make independent" step)

finally double clip each bladed seg into the viewer,
and Apple U to make a subclip.

as i say: a bit of a drag, so now the good news:

there IS an XML based tool that can connect any file with any offline clips,
assuming the reel# and TC match up.

it's called FCP ReConnect, and you can get it from Video Toolshed,
[www.videotoolshed.com]



nick