• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  16 Character Reel Number EDLs from FCP

  Posted by Ryan Brooks on January 13, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  Hello,

  Does anyone know of a way to produce EDLs from Final Cut Pro with 16 Character reel names/numbers?

  Any help much appreciated!

  Cheers,

  Ryan.

  Shane Ross replied 17 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Pale

  January 13, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  I don’t know of any EDL protocol that allows that. EDL’s are for primitive 1970’s computers (linear edit controllers). It’s been awhile, but the max I have heard of is 8 characters.

  Have you tried all the flavors…GVG, Sony, as well as CMX.
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  Ryan Brooks

  January 13, 2009 at 4:35 pm

  Both Avid and Nucoda can import and export 16 Character reel names as CMX3600 EDLs. It would help our RED Workflow nicely if you could do this, but none of the flavours of EDLs from FCP seem to do this!

  Nevermind!

  Thanks.

  Ryan.
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  Bob Flood

  January 13, 2009 at 4:43 pm

  Ryan

  out of any of the EDL formats, the CMX 3600 will give you 8 place alpha numeric reel names, but that is the biggest you will see. EDL’s just dont make a lot of room for reel names.

  What usually happens is you will get substitutions, with an legend of the subs at the top of the list, ususally something like “Reel BobsBigDog1 has been replaced with 000008”

  to make it less random, you could rename all the necessary reels your self to something that will get carried through, in the case of a CMX 3600 EDL, you have 8 charachters

  hope this helps

  “I like video because its so fast!”

  Bob Flood
  Greer & Associates, Inc.
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  Ryan Brooks

  January 13, 2009 at 4:58 pm

  I thought this might be the case! Just a thought as it would speed up the process of going Red-FCP Offline-Nucoda Grade-DS Nitris Online

  Cheers,

  Ryan.
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  Shane Ross

  January 13, 2009 at 6:32 pm

  Sorry Ryan, you are dealing with 20 year old technology. Time to use XMLs and the newer stuff. Or know the limitations of EDLs and adjust your “tape names” (since there is NO tape with Red) accordingly.

  Shane

  

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