Feature idea: Convert markers to basic titles or basic lower thirds

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Background info

• Chapter markers are very convenient to create, edit, move
• Very likely you want to export chapter markers to online videos anyhow
• Very likely chapter markers and lower third titles coincide

Hence it would make sense to only work with chapter markers

• Then create one title or lower third and customize it to your liking.
• Designate it as the basic title or basic lower third.
• As part of the finishing process you run the script.

Graphical User Interface

• Per each [ Chapter Marker ▾ ] create a [ Basic Lower Third ▾ ] of _______ length
• [ Add another conversion pass ]
• [ Run ]
  • Per each conversion pass you have these choices:
  • [ Normal | TODO | DONE | Chapter ] can get turned into [ Basic Lower Third | Basic Title] of hh:mm:ss.ff length

Command Line Interface

fcp-c2t -c <mtdc><tl><length> -i input.xml -o output.xml

• -c convert from what marker-type to what generator-type by their single-letter-codes
  • i.e. "ct2s" means from "chapter marker" to "basic title" with a length of 2 seconds
  • or "ml0115" meaning from "normal marker" to "basic lower third" with a length of 1 second and 15 frames
• length is read from right (frames) to further left. The more numbers you state the higher units they get assigned (frames, seconds, minutes, hours)
  • length is accepted without any separator as pairs of two digits per each unit or by the ":" separator or by unit suffixes (f for frames, s for seconds, m for minutes, h for hours) and in that case you could skip other units, i.e. 1m for 1 minute.
  • Conversion pass options are simply separated by spaces or by using another -cargument, i.e. -c ct2s ml0115