• Avid Media Composer

  Avid P2 EDL Problem

  Posted by Daniel Addelson on February 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm

  I’m having some trouble getting a proper EDL to our colorist who is working on a Davinci. Apparently the EDL shows each clip with a starting timecode of 00:00:00:00, which makes it impossible to conform to the actual correct timecode. Here is a note I got from our colorist. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Dan

  Avid MC 3.1.2
  MacPro

  Here’s the email:
  The EDLs you sent have the P2 file names in the comments.

  To re-conform your project, since the EDL ignore record timcode, these
  are set as the Tape Names in DaVinci.

  Then, the source media is set to use the file names as the Tape Names.

  That way, each file is its own tape, and the timecode starts at
  00:00:00.0 for each “tape”.

  The only way to re-conform the way you’re saying is to have an EDL
  with the corresponding AVID filenames in the comments of the EDL.

  Could you export an EDL with the Avid Media Filename in the comments?

  Daniel Addelson replied 15 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Michael Phillips

  February 6, 2011 at 10:58 pm

  If you see the filename anywhere in your columns, you can always add them to either the CAMROLL or LABROLL column via the “duplicate column” feature. In doing that, the filename will show up in lieu of the tape name in the EDL to be used by da vinci.

  Michael

  Michael Phillips
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  Daniel Addelson

  February 7, 2011 at 3:51 am

  Michael,

  LABROLL and CAMROLL are not options in the menu. All I have are:
  COMMENTS
  DESCRIPTION
  SCENE
  TAKE
  TAPE
  UNC PATH

  I duplicated the column with the filenames and copied to the “Comments” column, but could not copy to the “Tape” column. When I copied to the “Tape” column I got the error: “No modifiable entries in column ‘Tape'”

  Can the Davinci read the filenames out of the “Comments” section? How do I copy to LABROLL or CAMROLL columns?

  Thanks – your help is immensely appreciated.
  Dan
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  Daniel Addelson

  February 7, 2011 at 4:13 am

  Nevermind, I figured it out!

  All I had to do was add the CAMROLL and LABROLL to the headings display in the bin. Then they showed when I selected ‘duplicated column.’ I then selected LABROLL instead of TAPE in the EDL Manager and I think I’m good to go. Your help was invaluable.

  D
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  Daniel Addelson

  February 8, 2011 at 6:16 am

  Ok, well it looks like I celebrated prematurely. Here is the email I got from our colorist:

  Hi Daniel,

  The EDLs you attached read exactly as the previous EDLs:
  ———–
  011 AX V C 00:00:05:01 00:00:06:13 01:00:01:12 01:00:02:27
  * FROM CLIP NAME: 0002U7.COPY.01
  ————

  The “FROM CLIP NAME: 0002U7.COPY.01 ” corresponds to the P2 Card
  Filename: “0002U7.MXF”

  We need the EDL to reference the Avid Clip Filename.

  For example, something like:
  ——-
  011 AX V C 00:00:05:01 00:00:06:13 01:00:01:12 01:00:02:27
  * FROM CLIP NAME: V01.C5D5A8ED_49B06849B068ED
  ——-

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