Split individual clips out of metadata files from CatDV XML exports into individual files.
usage: split_catdv_clips.py [-h] [-d] [-f] [-o OUT] source
Split CatDV XML files into chunks
positional arguments:
source Path to the master XML source file to split
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d, --debug Enables debug information printing
-f, --force Overwrite destination clip files if they already exist
-o OUT, --out OUT Path of the location to store the split-out clip files in
default: ./clips/, will be created automatically
Simplest Use Case
split_catdv_clips.py -o /tmp/splitter ./source/MasterSourceMetadata.xml
12252 clips to write out...
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...
All done. Your 12252 clips are located in: /tmp/splitter
By default the split out clip files will be written into
./clips/. This directory will be created automatically if it
does not exist.
To prevent some accidents from happening the script will refuse to operate if it detects that a destination clip file already exists. The following message will appear if this happens to you:
$ ./split_catdv_clips.py -o /tmp/splitter ./source/MasterSourceMetadata.xml
12252 clips to write out...
[ERROR] Destination clip file already exists: /tmp/splitter/WRAL_1_SD_Air.mp4.xml
[INFO] Run this script again with the --force option to overwrite existing files
Per the instructions in the error message, all you have to do is
use the --force option to continue. Or, should you choose to do
so, you may delete all the previously generated clip files.