beaudiomer

Beaudiomer is a LaTeX package and python script which takes a beamer presentation with additional \audio and \video and \wait commands and produces an .xml file suitable for the autocuter.

To use this, git clone this package into, say, your local TEXMF tree, e.g.,

cd ~/texmf/tex/latex
git clone https://github.com/kisonecat/beaudiomer.git

In the preamble of your beamer file, include \usepackage{beaudiomer} and on the appropriate slides, include \audio{the-relevant-audio-file.wav}. After you pdflatex your beamer file, the resulting PDF will include special annotations pointing to the audio file. To produce an input.xml suitable for autocut, use python beaudiomer.py filename.pdf where filename.pdf is the PDF that pdflatex produced.

You can use \video{a-movie.mp4} to replace an entire slide with a video, or \wait{17} to wait for 17 seconds on the slide. Note that \audio commands should be positioned appropriately relative to \pause and the like.

The \audio and \video and \wait commands also accept a frame, e.g.,

\begin{frame}
  one, \uncover<2->{two}, and \uncover<3->{three}.

  \wait<1>{0.1}
  \wait<2>{1}
  \wait<3>{5}
  
\end{frame}

Dependencies

Reading annotations was causing pymupdf to segfault, so beaudiomer.py depends on pymupdf and pypdf2.