• Adobe Premiere Pro

  What format is the Edit List export?

  Posted by Mark Palmos on November 16, 2006 at 12:56 am

  Hello all,

  I have a half done project which must be finished on Discreet Edit for logistic reasons. I have tried exporting the EDL from PP and importing to Edit. Edit can take GVG, Sony, CMX, Convergence lists. The PP EDL export has almost no options, and it does not even say what format the EDL is in.

  Discreet Edit did not like the list and the operation failed. Is there some way of making this PP list standard CMX or GVG, Sony or anything useful?

  Thanks,
  Mark.

  Mark Palmos replied 19 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Craig Howard

  November 16, 2006 at 2:26 am

  CMX3600 I seem to recall.

  Craig Howard
  Shooter Film Company
  Auckland
  New Zealand

  Premiere Pro 2.0
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  Troy Murison

  November 16, 2006 at 5:49 pm

  It is a CMX 3600 list but not to the strictest of CMX-ness. We have
  always had to open Premiere lists in a EDL utility like Pre-Reader or
  Phoenix List Manager and then resave them to work with most systems.
  The CMX controller that our colourists use will absolutely not open
  PPro lists.

  I really wish Adobe would get this kind of stuff right. It’s hard to
  call yourself ‘Pro’ anything with issues like this IMO. Like you said,
  just the shear lack of being able to control what you want/don’t want
  in a EDL is frustrating, let alone the fact that it’s bogus when you do
  export. I have never taken the time to open/look at a PPro EDL to see
  what exactly is wrong. If you knew, you could conceivably edit it in
  notepad rather than spend $$ on a utility. I don’t even know if/where
  you can get the two I mentioned anymore- they’re really old! EDL Max
  is one I’ve seen on the web but it’s really $$$$$. We don’t use PPro
  workflow much. I would use PPro more if this and a few other closely
  related items worked better/more reliably or even at all, so I just
  took a shot at one of those utilities being able to sort it out and
  that made the EDL work, so that’s as far as I got.

  -Troy Murison
  Seattle, WA
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  Baz Leffler

  November 16, 2006 at 11:41 pm

  Also Nuendo does not like a PPro EDL. I have fixed them in notepad but I can’t remember how I did it (but I do have notes somewhere on my system on what I did).

  But on a positive note, there is one program I know that likes the PPro EDL… yep… PPro reads them perfectly!!!!

  Baz
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  Mark Palmos

  November 16, 2006 at 11:52 pm

  Thanks guys,
  If you have any tips on what I can do to standardise the edl, that would be great. Otherwise I guess I will print the edl and recreate it manually, only about 50 edits anyway!
  tx
  mark.

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