• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Badly Formatted EDL?

  Posted by Eli Mavros on September 19, 2006 at 5:34 pm

  So I am trying to import an EDL into FCP and I keep getting an error message that says “badly formatted EDL”. I’ve never seen this before. So I gave the EDL to our Flame guy and he had no problem opening it up on the Flame and it recognized it as a CMX3600 EDL. I can’t seem to open it up in Excel either, but it will open in Text Edit and looks good to me. I had the Flame guy resave the EDL out of the flame, and now it lets me import the EDL into FCP, but once I import it there does not seem to be anything in the sequence. I am at a loss; please explain to me what might be happening.

  Thanks,
  Eli Mavros

  Eli Mavros

  Bouke Vahl replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  September 19, 2006 at 7:36 pm

  EDL from where?

  Shane

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  Bouke Vahl

  September 20, 2006 at 11:32 am

  Some systems use TAB between the columns, some use three spaces.
  Be very cautious when changing an EDL in a text generator, always keep the original someplace safe.

  Bouke

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