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EDL import into CS6
Having a bit of a nightmare importing an EDL into Premiere and I was wondering what I’m doing wrong. I have an EDL out of Media Composer 5.5 saved in the correct format CMX3600 to go into Premiere Pro CS6.01.
Import works fine, opening up the EDL text file looks fine, all the timecodes and in/out points are right.
However, the second I start relinking clips in the media manager I lose all the in points on the media so get a succession of clips in the right place and of the right length but all starting from the beginning. The only way I can see to get it into Premiere is to print the EDL and do it by hand but this is a massive pain. Is there any way to stop premiere from doing this. (I’m relinking to the exact same DNXHD files on the same drive)
On an aside something similar is happening when I import into FCP7. The in points seem lost again although the clips progress. i.e. CLIP A runs for 10 secs, cut to clip B for 10 secs, cut back to CLIP A and it will continue 10 secs in. Premiere is CLIP A runs for 10 secs, cut to Clip B for 10 secs, cut back to Clip A and it’s back at 0 secs again.
Driving me insane!
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I don’t know if you got this to work, but as I recall, EDL conforms to:
1 video with 1key video tracks (only 2 video tracks)
and 1 audio track, stereo or mono.
If you have more tracks than that, you may need to choose a different export format. You might try exporting to final cut xml, then importing that into premiere.
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