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Importing a text file as a playlist

This feature is part of the licensable AppCenter Pro option.

Import text file as playlist — If you are licensed for AppCenter Pro, you receive the import text le

as playlist feature. With this feature you can specify a playlist as a text le and then import it into

AppCenter. You can choose to import the playlist as a new list or append to an existing list. When

appending to an existing list, the imported playlist is added as a section at the end of the existing

list.

The information in the text le must be arranged as follows:

• The text le must have at least three columns, separated by spaces or tabs.

• For each row, one column must specify the clip name, one column must specify the mark in

point, and one column must specify the duration.

• The clip name can include a path, or it can be a simple clip name with no path. Spaces in the

path/name are not allowed.

• The format for specifying a path with the clip name is volume:/binname/clipname. For example,

V:/default/Clip_1.

• If the clip name has no path, the clip must be in the current bin.

• Timecode can be formatted with separators or without separators. If without separators, it must

be in format HHMMSSFF. If with separators, it can be in single-digit format H:M:S:F, it can be

in double-digit format HH:MM:SS:FF, or it can have the single-digit and double-digit formats

combined. Colon, semicolon, period, and comma are all legal timecode separators.

• A “wild character” 99:99:99:99 can be used, in either the mark in or duration columns, to indicate

that the clip should be inserted in its entirety.

• A section can be specied in the following 3 ways:

• <section>

Results in a section with a default name and no pause

• <section> MyCommercialPod

Results in a section named "MyCommercialPod" with no pause

• <section> MyCommercialPod StopBlack

Results in a section named "MyCommercialPod" with a pause at the end that displays black.

Pause type can be any of the following: StopBlack, StopFreeze, StopNext, or StopEE.

• Timecode values are allowed to be out of range, as AppCenter normalizes timecode values when

the playlist is played out. For example, if in the text le, the seconds value is greater than 60, as

in 00:25:75:00, AppCenter rounds up the minutes value and converts the timecode to 00:26:15:00.

• You can specify sections in the imported playlist by adding a row at the beginning of a section

that contains just the <section> specier.

The following example shows the contents of a text le that species a playlist

with two sections.

Clip01 00:00:00:00 00:00:30:00

Clip03 00:25:00:00 00:01:00:00

Clip10 00:00:20:00 00:00:05:00

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