• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Avid EDL to FCP

  Posted by Liam Stephens on March 10, 2006 at 10:59 pm

  Anyone done the marvellous journey from Xpress Pro to FCP via an EDL? If u have could u please give me some pointers or direct me in the right way in terms of work flow and such…
  cheers
  Liam

  Luke David replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Aaron Neitz

  March 10, 2006 at 11:59 pm

  easy: export and EDL from Avid (like a CMX3600) and “Import EDL” in FCP.
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  Liam Stephens

  March 11, 2006 at 1:37 am

  Cheers Charlie
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  Luke David

  March 11, 2006 at 12:39 pm

  The EDL function does work, although it can be very buggy. Automatic Duck helps DRAMATICALLy and will perserve much more of the original edit than an EDL. Also, keep in ming, that FCP will only translate 1 video layer and 4 audio, so you may have to do multiple EDL exports and then put them back together once they are in. I have experienced a lot of problems when trying to bring in EDLs and it can be very frustrating, especially when there is a client sitting there. Try several export settings from Avid because some of them don’t work at all. Good Luck!

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