Spits out a tab delimited bunch of markers for importing into Final Cut Pro, for use with MarkerTool

FCP_marker_generator.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU

# by Ian Haigh
# http://ianhaigh.com/

# for use with MarkerTool
# http://www.spherico.de/filmtools/markerTool/index.html

FRAME_DURATION = 0.04
require "timecode"

frame = 0.0
beat = 60.0 / 83.0 # 60s for 128 bpm
# puts "beat in seconds: #{beat}"
marker_counter = 1

while (frame < 120)
  frame += FRAME_DURATION
  frame=frame.round(2)
	remainder = (frame + beat) % beat
	if remainder <= FRAME_DURATION
		# puts "#{frame}\t:\t#{frame % beat}"
    in_frames = frame / FRAME_DURATION 
    in_timecode = Timecode.new(in_frames)
    puts "#{in_timecode}\t#{in_timecode + 1}\t#{Timecode.new(1)}\tbeat_#{marker_counter}"
    marker_counter+=1
	end
end