• Adobe Premiere Pro

  EDL / AAF export?

  Posted by Adam Rose esq. on October 3, 2006 at 9:27 pm

  Hello – first time here

  am a Sony Vegas user – client has used PPro to edit a piece, but now wants me to finish the edit. He has supplied the footage on HDD, and doesn’t know how to export either EDL or AAF. Ok, so he’s not a power user, but I know even less about PPro

  any recommendations to make my edit easier?

  TIA

  🙂

  Fuddam

  Adam Rose esq. replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ninetto Makavejev

  October 4, 2006 at 7:53 am

  This is the million dollar question; when/why does AAF-export from Premiere work and when does it not. My attempts at the ADOBE forum got no replies, and here the posts seem to imply that AAF-export from Premiere usually results in a mess.

  My own experience: with Prem.1.5 it actually worked -for a rather small project (20 min)- as an import into AVID XPRESS PRO 5.3. I just had to re-link the Media Files. When I tried a similiar export with PremPro 2.0 about six months later: the result was garbage.

  Now as to the whys and wherefores, I am afraid I can’t help you further. I guess you might have to go the trial-and-error path… something the Software Developers actally get paid to do, not end-users!

  Anybody else?

  regards,
  n.m.
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  Adam Rose esq.

  October 4, 2006 at 10:49 pm

  thanks for the reply. Got the following suggestions on the vegas forum:

  >>>
  AAF from Premiere Pro opened in Vegas 6/7 should work pretty well. Pre-“pro” premiere lists/projects/exports of any type almost definitely will not open in Vegas correctly. If you are in 6.0x era Premiere, try opening the project in (ideally the current version of) Premiere and then export to AAF. Vegas 6 or 7 should open that AAF.

  (snip)

  You may have to do some manual “cleaning” of the PPro project first. Don’t use any subclips in PPro (go back and replace with original master clips) and also don’t allow any “nesting” of PPro sequences. If there is any nesting — Vegas will import the clips into the project, but not give you anything on the timeline. Multiple sequences will come into Vegas as separately labeled layers.

  I go to/from PPro and Vegas fairly regularly. I have one client that offlines in PPro and I then import to Vegas for online via AAF. And — I also offline in Vegas and AAF to PPro/Axio for uncompressed work.
  <<< may be helpful 🙂

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