Using ComCut to find .mpg's in a directory and use the existing EDL to create new file, move to another directory

[brettsheleski]

Using ComCut to find .mpg's in a directory and use the existing EDL to create new file, move to another directory

[daphatty]

Is comcut actually creating usable files for you? Whenever I try to remove commercials from my ChannelsDVR recorded shows using the accompanying .edl file, the resulting file has no audio at all.

[omn1slash]

Yeah, they were creating just fine. The problem was I couldn't get the program to find a way to find anything *.mpg in the channels DVR folder, so this didn't work out for me. I ended up installing a Windows VM on my Linux box and using an automated MCEBuddy process.

[BrettSheleski]

@omn1slash - You'd have to write a script to handle what you're looking for. Off the top of my head you should probably be able to use the find command with the -exec parameter.

Something like the following:

find /path/to/source/dir -name "*.mpg" -exec comcut {} /path/to/destination/dir/`basename {}` \;

[omn1slash]

I'll give that a shot - thanks! I'm not a pro at Linux or devising scripts, but this should be helpful. I really do like comcut and would prefer to use it.