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reconnect from EDL with no reel
I am attempting to reconnect media from an EDL where the footage has no reel (VHS, Hi-8). The EDL has AX listed as the reel and is able to correctly set up the sequence, albeit disconnected. However, when I reconnect to the capture scratch, each clip begins at the start of the captured footage, rather than where the EDL is telling it to go. Is there a way to tell it to connect to the clip already in FCP (which now has a timecode) rather than the capture scratch? How did they use EDLs in the days before DV?
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Try this:
Put your playhead on a clip you need to relink in the EDL timeline.
Find the timecode for that frame.
Open the clip you want to replace in the timeline from the browser.
type in the exact timecode where your playhead is
Drag the clip from the viewer window onto the Canvas window and drop it in the “replace” box
Your new clip should be lined up2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
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You can manually add reel names in FCP. Try that, then reexport the EDL. Where’s the EDL coming from?
Jeremy
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Yup, that’s what I’ve been trying since I first posted. I ran a test with some unimportant footage, where I captured some new VHS footage. Set the capture to non-controllable. Even if you put a reel name in the field, it doesn’t show up in the browser. After capture I went back and added a reel name. Here’s the kicker, even though I changed the clip name in the browser from untitled, and added a reel name, it still connects to untitled. But, it seems to do it somewhat correctly. You can’t add handles, or at least I haven’t been able to get it to do that. So, I did that in NeoOffice, saved as CSV (space delineated), then resaved as .txt, and imported as an EDL. There may very well be an easier but, wish me luck, this seems to be working. The only thing is that you can’t add 15 frame handles in NeoOffice, it has to be by the whole second. Thanks for all the help. Now I’m going to try it on the real project.
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[Ariane Fisher] “After capture I went back and added a reel name.”
That’s the only way that I know.
[Ariane Fisher] “Here’s the kicker, even though I changed the clip name in the browser from untitled, and added a reel name, it still connects to untitled.”
You mean in the finder? Right click on the clip in the borwser and choose Rename > Match File to Clip. That will remane the clip in the finder.
[Ariane Fisher] “You can’t add handles,”
You can do that upon capture with the NLE.
Why are using EDL and not XML? Just curious.
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I would love to use XML; it’s so much more versatile. I just haven’t figured out how to do that yet. My workflow is that I get a spreadsheet from the client with cuts (no handles), along with titles, photos, etc. I’ve figured out how to get the cuts from the spreadsheet (with much cobbling) into a .txt EDL. Haven’t quite figured out the titles and photos portion yet. Do you know XML or any resources where I can learn it? I’m a quick study on programming but haven’t found any place with the information I need.
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What do you need with the titles and photos?
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In my ideal world I would take the titles, captions, etc and have them “automatically” insert into the appropriate Motion template for the sequence. Don’t know if that’s even remotely possible. I have the templates and where they go on the timeline, but need to manually insert them. I know that I can direct track 2 using the EDL (for captions and such), but haven’t played with it yet. Not sure if I can get XML to talk to motion templates.
As for the photos, I’ve done some playing and found that I can get an EDL to insert the photos in the sequence, although they are all scaled to 100% rather than to fit.
Some other things, in my ideal world, I’d love to play with:
-using XML or Coredata (whichever does the job) to make templates for photos which will automatically adjust for portrait or landscape, like the AppleTV screensaver
-using FXscript or whatever works to take my digital juice transitions and make them native to FCP so that I can make them default transitions where needed without having to manually overwrite themI’ve tried exporting sequences in XML simply to read them, even sequences with only clip, but haven’t been able to decipher the timecode. Everything else seemed relatively straightforward.
Any good manuals on XML around?
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