XMiL Dicer

Ever had trouble coming up with a montage? Sometimes it's tough to make sense of the footage that you have available for montages, and sometimes the lightning of inspiration simply refuses to strike. XMiL Dicer is a tool that can help in those situations. It will take the shots of your Final Cut Pro sequence, shuffle them around, and put them back into you sequence in random order - all at the press of one single button.

Shuffle your shots
When you click the Dice button in XMiL Dicer the application is going to ask Final Cut Pro for an XML representation of the front most sequence in the timeline window. It will then randomize the order of all shots on V1 and send the sequence back to Final Cut Pro, where it will appear as the new front most sequence in the timeline and canvas windows. The new sequence name includes a time stamp so that it is easy to keep track of things.

XMiL Dicer will only shuffle clips on V1, it will leave the other video tracks alone, as well as all audio tracks.

The intended workflow is to use Dicer many times while working on a montage. This helps you exploring your footage and evaluating its strengths and weaknesses quickly - simply by presenting your shots in a new random order each time you 'roll the dice'. While you shouldn't expect the application to create a montage all on its own, Dicer can help you a lot in the rough and early stages of putting together your montage.