• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Avid EDL and FCP

  Posted by Brad Hodgson on January 21, 2009 at 3:58 am

  Hi all,

  I’m hoping for a bit of help… I’ve read a couple of posts on offline edit problems with timecode from an Avid EDL to FCP, but I’d just like some clarification if possible regarding the issue… sorry, the workflow here is a bit convoluted…

  I edit on a FCP machine, my boss edits on an Avid. Ok, so we get RED footage. I make proxies with Red Rushes for Avid machine to ingest. Offline edit on Avid. I get EDL from Avid machine with timecodes (original and Avid timeline)… everything fine so far.

  I manually digitize high-res files from RedAlert with original matching timecodes from Avid EDl… everything looks fine… I bring those files into Color to correct, do my motion graphics…

  Ok, so here is where the problem starts… I understand at this point I’ve lost original timecode, but my clips should still match, since I digitized from original clip timecodes on my machine, right?

  When I line up clips on FCP timeline, layback final audio (matched to original Avid offline edit), the audio drifts.

  I was so burnt at the end of the night, I’m not sure if each clip was off by a frame or if it was randomly a frame or two… I looked at the Avid EDL at the TIMELINE timecode and where an OUT is, the next clip’s in starts with same OUT point as the IN point… now I think about it, I almost feel like each clip in my FCP online timeline was long by a frame… but I’m fried so I don’t remember in all honesty.

  Can anyone shed light on this? I’m a fairly new “commercial” editor that’s not used to working with other systems yet…

  Any suggestions? Any automatic fixes or can I just cut a frame off the end of each clip in the online timeline? I know Automatic Duck is something I’ve read about that can help bridge systems and something I’ll try to push for future projects… but anything I can do now with this project since I’ve digitized everything?

  Thank you for any help!
  Brad

  Brad Hodgson replied 17 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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