Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 112)

112 Chapter 6 Preparing the Source Clips for Editing
Batch Conforming Several Clips at a Time
As an alternative to conforming the frame rate of each clip individually, you can use the
Batch Conform feature to conform the frame rates of all the clips in a selected folder.
To batch conform:
1 Make sure all the clips you want to conform are in the same folder.
2 Choose File > Batch Conform.
3 In the dialog that appears, select any clip file in the folder that contains the clips you
want to conform, then click Choose.
Note: You only need to select one clip file. All the clips in the folder will be conformed.
4 In the Batch Conform dialog, choose a frame rate from the “Conform to” pop-up menu,
then click Conform.
After the batch conform process is completed, the following occur:
 The clips are conformed to the chosen frame rate and placed in a Cinema Tools–
created subfolder named Conformed [frame rate], where frame rate is the new frame
rate for the clips. A folder might be named Conformed 24.0, for example.
 If Cinema Tools is unable to complete the conform process for a clip, that clip is
moved into a Cinema Tools–created subfolder named Skipped. (A clip is not
processed if it doesn’t contain a video track, if the frame rate is not supported, or if
no codec is found for the video track.)
 A text file named conform.log appears at the top level of the folder. This log gives the
date and time that the process started and ended, for each clip. If any problems were
encountered, such as running out of disk space or memory, an error message
describing the problem also appears in the log.
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