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  EDL from AMA

  Posted by Pierre Breton on June 11, 2010 at 11:56 pm

  I have trouble creating an EDL (won’t work at all) from a timeline. The only thing I can think of is all my sources come from P2 linked through AMA. Is AMA known to be a problem creating EDLs?

  Thanks.

  Michael Phillips replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Job Ter burg

  June 12, 2010 at 7:53 am

  In MC versions prior to v5, EDL Manager needs a tapename in order to be able to generate an EDL. If you copy the shoot date to the Tapename column, I think you should be able to pull off creating an EDL.

  Also note that it is often better to not use “Get Current Sequence” in EDL Manager, but rather open the bin with the sequence(s) from within EDL Manager. Somehow, that’s a less buggy workflow.
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  Michael Phillips

  June 13, 2010 at 4:02 pm

  Since AMA linked media cannot generate an AAF, then “get sequence” will not work since it creates an AAF in the background. This is why opening the bin directly from EDL Manager will work.

  In versions previous to MCv5, you can always try putting your source ID in the Labroll column and generate a list from there using Labroll as source in EDL Manager.

  As Job is inferring, v5 brings file import/AMA enhancements that allow them to behave just like tape based sources for ALE, ALE Merge, metadata management and editing, list generation, etc.

  Michael

  Michael Phillips

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