Lumberyard Help

Import the media associated with this Event to your Project.

(Optional) Create multicam clips if you used Double System Sound or if you had multiple cameras.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Premiere Pro will not import a multicam clip if there is more than one clip on an angle. The reasons are unimportant, but it is a current limitation. Premiere Pro will export a multicam clip to XML but it will not re-import that same XML if it has more than one clip on an angle.

Note: Lumberyard uses the time-of-day of the media in the first angle in the multicam. Set whichever source with the most accurate time as the first angle in the multicam. (Remember you can drag the order after the multicam clip is created.) See: Get Accurate Time.

IMPORTANT: Media must be fully imported before exporting XML.

Before export, think about what you want the keyword ranges applied to and then select accordingly. Only selected items will be included in the exported XML.
• If you are Keywording just the clips, select the Bin(s) and export XML
• If you've created multicam clips, and only want to log the multicam clip, place the multicam clips in their own Bin and select that Bin before export. Otherwise string-outs will include both original and multicam clips for a very confusing timeline.

Select the Bin(s) you want to send to Lumberyard, and export XML to a convenient location, ready to import to Lumberyard.(such as the Desktop).

Click the Import XML... button to import the XML exported from your NLE.

From the Lumberyard Event pop-up menu, select the matching Event from the Web app. Events are listed by most recent to oldest.

Set any adjustment to media time. (See the Correcting Time Offset Accordion below.)

Keywords from a Logged Lumberjack Event are added to the Clips from the XML using  Lumberyard’s Keyword mode. By default Lumberyard uses time-of-day set in the cameras to match media with its logged keyword ranges.

Some users may need to override this default behavior. In the Preferences panels Camera tab there are three options for the media file's content created time:

• most cameras set the content created when they start recording the media file, so this is the default
• some cameras set the content created when they stop recording the media file
• for cameras that lock to time-of-day SMPTE/EBU Timecode, this time can be used instead of the media file's content created time (these camera’s clocks will still need their date and time zone set accurately)

For short turn-around projects, there’s also the option to create selects string-outs. See the Lumberyard Story Mode Accordion below.

Unless you are using option 3 above (SMPTE Timecode), Lumberyard relies on UTC (Time-of-Day with time zone) to match media and logged keywords. To make this accurate the time set on the cameras must match the time of day used. Since it is easy to get camera times wrong, Lumberyard allows you to offset media times to better match logged times. As you make adjustments you will see the media times adjust. See: How to Get Accurate Time for tips on finding any offset necessary.

If you need to make an adjustment beyond the range available in Lumberyard, you have an additional option in  Final Cut Pro X. From the Modify menu, select ‘Adjust Content Created Date and Time.’ If you select all the clips with the incorrect times and change just the date, Final Cut Pro X should change all the dates relative to their original start times.

Click the "Send to Final Cut Pro X" or "Send to Premier Pro" button to update Event or Project in your NLE.

Or click the "Send to Builder" button to add the logged Clips to a new Builder document. Keywords are added to Text Blocks in Builder after a Clip has a Transcript added.

Keywords are added to multicam clips and video clips in Final Cut Pro X.

The Keywords are added as Marker Ranges in to multicam clips and video clips in Premiere Pro.

There are also selects string-out options that you may want to explore before clicking Merge and Send to the NLE.

Lumberyard can create a string-out of selects based on Activities or Other Keywords. Each string-out is a Compound Clip (Final Cut Pro X) or Sequence (Premiere Pro) with the clips in its timeline strung out in time order.

There are four types of string-out checkboxes that can be used in any combination:

• each person's activities makes a string-out for each person with all their logged Activities (for example all the plays in a match by a specific player)
• each person's other keywords makes a string-out for each person with all their logged Other Keywords (for example a cut down of an interview to only the keyworded parts of the interview)
• each activity makes a string-out for each logged Activity
• each other keyword makes a string-out for each logged Other Keywords

For example, if you wanted to create a selects string-out for all clips that have the Other Keyword “Insurance” click the "each other keyword" checkbox on. Lumberyard will only create a string-out if there are three or more ranges to add to the compound clip.

Note: The two people string-out options function differently from the Activity or Other Keyword string-outs. With People string-outs there is double-filtering going on.

For each Person their activities will be in the string-out, but not the activities from another person.

Similarly for a Person's Other keywords will include only Other keywords from that person.

Pro Tip: People based string-outs have some unusual applications. For example: if you want to just cut down a long, live shoot to the active moments, assign a "Person" (could be episode title or number) and add appropriate Activity or Other Keyword Ranges during the shoot. Then set Lumberyard for a Person/Activities (or Person/Other if you went down that path) and Lumberyard will give a string-out of the keyworded parts of the shoot.

Each string-out is tagged with the Keyword  "String-outs" and can be found in that keyword collection in the NLE or inside a Bin called "String-outs". (String-outs are ignored by Builder.)

If you have created multicams before sending the XML to Lumberyard, the clips will optionally switch angles on each edit in the string-out to make it more “producer friendly” during playback (avoiding jump cuts). You can (and will) change angles as you create your edit from the string-out.

Note: You can create select string-outs from a single Event during the original Keyword mode, or from multiple Events of keyworded clips using Story mode.

Lumberyard can add a basic lower third title that identifies each person when they first come on camera in a Selects string-out.

To add a basic lower third title for each person, click the “and add lower third titles for each person” checkbox on.

In Final Cut Pro X these titles will have the subrole “Lumberjack” so that they can be turned on or off globally in the Compound Clip.

In Premiere Pro the Titles are on a Track that can be selected or deactivated.

Note: In Final Cut Pro X you can drag a new Title design onto the title created by Lumberyard to update the appearance of the title (and animation) to the Title design that was dropped on the existing clip.

When you have made your Selects string-out choices, click the "Send to Final Cut Pro X /Premiere Pro" button to update the Logging in your NLE.

Most documentary projects are multi-year projects, and it’s not reasonable to wait until the end of all shooting to start logging. It is no problem to transfer the Lumberjack Logs to the NLE at the end of each shoot, when the material is imported to the NLE, but the full value of pre-edit string-outs can’t be obtained until at least part way through the project.

Lumberyard can, of course, create string-outs as each Event is logged, but in Story mode you have more control over the string-outs, as well as being able to build custom pre-edit string-outs from your already-logged material as it accumulates month by month.

To use Story mode, select the Bins or Events containing your already logged Clips and export XML for Lumberyard.

When Lumberyard detects that there are already logged Keyword Collections it will switch over to Story mode and display the Keywords from the logged Events.

From here, make the selections for the Selects String-outs you need. Click the" Send to Final Cut Pro X/Premiere Pro" button to create a New Event in Final Cut Pro X with the String-outs Timelines to your NLE.

Note: Selects String-outs will only be created if there are at least three Keyword Ranges with that Keyword applied.

Lumberyard can add a basic lower third title that identifies each person when they first come on camera in a Selects string-out.

To add a basic lower third title for each person, click the “and add lower third titles for each person” checkbox on.

In Final Cut Pro X these titles will have the subrole “Lumberjack” so that they can be turned on or off globally in the Compound Clip.

In Premiere Pro the Titles are on a Track that can be selected or deactivated.

Note: In Final Cut Pro X you can drag a new Title design onto the title created by Lumberyard to update the appearance of the title (and animation) to the Title design that was dropped on the existing clip.

When you have made your Selects string-out choices, click the "Send to Final Cut Pro X /Premiere Pro" button to send the String-out timelines to your NLE.

Be very careful to frame the shot first, making sure that the time display is visible, before rolling. The offset is easiest to calculate when you can compare the first frame of the clip (showing the Logger time display) with the time stamp of the media file for the same frame.

We have also had great results with Atomic Clock by CompuLab. The larger display image is easier to shoot. The Atomic Clock display time matches the Logger display time because both depend on the same atomic clock UTC.

Take the calculated offset from above, and enter it in the Adjust media by Hours:Minutes:Seconds pop-up menus.

The offset was entered in Lumberyard and - as easy as that - the time offset is corrected.