“The Barrier” Progress and File Conversion Progress I did four new scenes for “The Barrier” this week. That added about a minute and a half, which brings me up to just under 62 minutes in total. I expect the total will end up a bit over 100 minutes, although it will end up a bit shorted after I’ve cut it all together. The scenes I did were fairly simple. Each had just two characters, and the characters didn’t move around much. For the most part, the scenes come directly from the stories, which made them easier to do. Two of them were scenes where Arthur’s boss chews him out for something he did. I started on a fifth scene, but didn’t get far with it. File Conversion I wanted to convert the Xtranormal state files into Celtx files so I would have a script of the movie. I experimented a bit and came up with a way to do the conversion. The method is a bit clunky, but works well enough. The method doesn’t convert the actions in the film. I can add that, but I’m not sure that it is worth the effort, since I would need to edit them extensively. The Xtranormal state files are zipped files that contain several files. One of these, document.xml, is an XML file that contains the dialogue and actions. The process uses two batch files to extract this file, builds up a larger file with all of the scenes, and then uses an XSL file to convert the XML file into HTML. Finally, I use copy and paste to put the dialogue into Celtx. I’ve listed the batch files and XSL file below. I had to over come a few snags. I had to add the lines “” at the top of the file and “” at the bottom of the file, otherwise the XSL wouldn’t work. When I combined the files, a “ ” was added after each new file. I don’t know why that happened. I have to edit the combined file and delete all of the “ ” or the XSL won’t work. My programming skills are somewhat limited and I’m sure that a more skilled person could improve this method. If anyone does come up with a better version, please let me know. barrier_cnv_main.bat erase t1.xml erase t1.zip erase script.xml copy top.xml script.xml call cnv_sub.bat Scene01.state call cnv_sub.bat Scene02.state copy script.xml+bottom.xml cnv_sub.bat copy %1 t1.zip "c:program fileswinzipwzunzip" t1.zip document.xml copy script.xml+document.xml erase document.xml erase t1.zip top.xml bottom.xml convert.xsl p.sceneheading { font-family: "courier"; test- transform: "uppercase"} p.character { font-family: "courier"; test-transform: "uppercase"; text-indent:250} p.dialog { font-family: "courier"; text-indent:150}
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:06:47 +0000
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