Exporting markers list? [Workaround found using MS OneNote and Excel]

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2013/10/14 13:10:31 (permalink)

Exporting markers list? [Workaround found using MS OneNote and Excel]

I am using SONAR X3b to record foley and SFX for a film.
It appears that I cannot select and copy/paste the marker list. Is there a workaround? Are the markers stored in a CSV or similar file (perhaps under the new "assets" file) that might be somehow accessed? 
 
It would be very nice to be able to export the markers to a spreadsheet so I could then arrange the similar events (walking sounds, fight sounds, what-have-you) and easily find the locations and get all the similar sounds done in a single session, rather than having to make a separate spreadsheet by hand or read through the marker list (as I cannot CTRL-F/ search inside the marker list)
Is there another way other than doing a screen capture and then use OCR software and then manipulating that? It appears the Markers are already in a form I can use, it's just a matter of getting at them.
 
 
post edited by OscarLaun - 2013/10/18 11:47:35

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    robert_e_bone
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    Re: Exporting markers list? 2013/10/18 10:54:32 (permalink)
    This sounds useful - I will hunt around a bit for them later today, and if I can get at them I will post the steps for getting them
     
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    Re: Exporting markers list? 2013/10/18 11:25:18 (permalink)
    I've seen requests for this before. It's s not currently possible, and since there's no universal standard for exchanging them between DAWs, it's probably not a high priority for the Bakers.  But I did find this app that does Marker management for DAWs that can import/export marker data in some format:
     
    http://www.soundsinsync.com/products/ediload
     
     So maybe there's hope if you file a feature request with Cakewalk. Squeaky wheel gets the grease when it comes to new features, and it probably wouldn't require a huge amount of coding just to generate a .CSV:
     
    http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/featurerequest.aspx
     
     
     
     

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    Re: Exporting markers list? 2013/10/18 11:43:39 (permalink)
    Thanks, guys: I put in a feature request after posting the original query. 
    MS Office 2010 has an ok OCR, that at least gets the data into a spreadsheet.
    I used the snipping tool to make a jpg of the marker screen
    I import into MS OneNote
    I then can use the "copy text from picture" function and paste that into Excel
    The data then needs a bit of massaging due to gaps between the beginnings of '1's which messes up the filtering, but overall it's a workaround...just not pretty or particularly fast

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