Importing a text file as a playlist

This feature is part of the licensable AppCenter Pro option.

Import text file as playlist — If you are licensed for AppCenter Pro, you receive the import text file as playlist feature. With this feature you can specify a playlist as a text file and then import it into AppCenter. You can choose to import the playlist as a new list or append to an existing list. When appending to an existing list, the imported playlist is added as a section at the end of the existing list.

The information in the text file must be arranged as follows:

The text file must have at least three columns, separated by spaces or tabs.
For each row, one column must specify the clip name, one column must specify the mark in point, and one column must specify the duration.
The clip name can include a path, or it can be a simple clip name with no path. Spaces in the path/name are not allowed.
The format for specifying a path with the clip name is volume:/binname/clipname. For example, V:/default/Clip_1.
If the clip name has no path, the clip must be in the current bin.
Timecode can be formatted with separators or without separators. If without separators, it must be in format HHMMSSFF. If with separators, it can be in single-digit format H:M:S:F, it can be in double-digit format HH:MM:SS:FF, or it can have the single-digit and double-digit formats combined. Colon, semicolon, period, and comma are all legal timecode separators.
A “wild character” 99:99:99:99 can be used, in either the mark in or duration columns, to indicate that the clip should be inserted in its entirety.
A section can be specified in the following 3 ways:
- <section>
  Results in a section with a default name and no pause
- <section> MyCommercialPod
  Results in a section named "MyCommercialPod" with no pause
- <section> MyCommercialPod StopBlack
  Results in a section named "MyCommercialPod" with a pause at the end that displays black. Pause type can be any of the following: StopBlack, StopFreeze, StopNext, or StopEE.
Timecode values are allowed to be out of range, as AppCenter normalizes timecode values when the playlist is played out. For example, if in the text file, the seconds value is greater than 60, as in 00:25:75:00, AppCenter rounds up the minutes value and converts the timecode to 00:26:15:00.
You can specify sections in the imported playlist by adding a row at the beginning of a section that contains just the <section> specifier.

The following example shows the contents of a text file that specifies a playlist with two sections.

Clip01 00:00:00:00 00:00:30:00
Clip03 00:25:00:00 00:01:00:00
Clip10 00:00:20:00 00:00:05:00
Clip11 00:00:04:00 00:00:02:00
Clip12 00:00:25:00 00:00:02:00
Clip13 00:00:00:00 00:00:05:00
<section>
V:/abin/Clip15 00:41:46:00 00:00:04:00
V:/abin/Clip16 00:10:00:00 00:00:05:00
V:/abin/Clip17 00:20:00:00 00:00:05:00
V:/abin/Clip18 00:30:00:00 00:00:05:00
V:/abin/Clip19 00:10:00:00 00:00:05:00
V:/abin/Clip04 00:00:00:00 00:10:00:00