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XDCam and Vegas!
I’m hoping someone — ANYONE! – can help me out here.
I’m working on a project that was shot on multiple XDCam disks. The producer downloaded the proxy footage to her desktop and created a basic EDL using the Sony PDZ software. I have her entire workfolder now on my external hard drive, and I can browse the proxy footage and see her edits in the PDZ software, no problem at all.
I’d intended to take her EDL and do a clean edit in Vegas. But I can’t find any way to export her EDL from the PDZ software into Vegas. One option would be sending her EDL back to the ProDisc, which I would then import. However, I’m working from home and getting an XDCam deck here isn’t an option. I’d hoped to conform the media as the very last step in this process by taking my laptop to the producer’s office, where I’d have access to the deck.
It seems to me that one of the goals of having proxies is to allow producers and editors to exchange proxy media and EDLs *without* having to have the source disks or media available, only going to high-res at the very end. But I’m having a VERY hard time figuring out how to do this. Does anyone have any help or advice??
Thanks!
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You should be able to open the EDL in Vegas and drag that to the timeline.
Vegas will read the text file and order the clips.
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Thanks for your response… But drag the EDL from where? None of the PDZ-1 export options seem to be an obvious choice for import into Vegas, and I’ve tried saving it in every format and so far, Vegas won’t open any of them. Upon reading the text versions of all these files, none of them contain absolute references to clips (in other words, they reference a clip, but not a filename or hard drive location, etc.). Remember, I’m not saving the EDL to the ProDisc — it’s gotta be saved from the PDZ-1 software somewhere on a hard drive, and so far it doesn’t seem like that works.
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[Marc] “Remember, I’m not saving the EDL to the ProDisc — it’s gotta be saved from the PDZ-1 software somewhere on a hard drive, and so far it doesn’t seem like that works.”
Hmmm – Vegas should open the edl.txt file – really just a simplified and universal ‘veg’ file.
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I think the edl file and proxies have to be in the same directory. Does that help?
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I’ll try that. But what option should I choose when exporting? The edl doesn’t look like a text when I saw it in a text editor… I’ll try and keep you posted. Thanks again!
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If you have all the proxies and the edl, it’s not a matter of exporting buy simply opening the edl in Vegas.
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PDZ saves the “edit list” as an .smi file, which Vegas will not open. And if you open the .smi file in a text editor, save it as a .txt and try to open it in Vegas, it says the file is in an unsupported format.
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Keep this thread up guys, I’ve a project coming up where I will need this workflow.
Are you editing XDcam HD Marc?
Alan
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No, SD. Though I imagine the problem would be the same regardless. Apparently, the PDZ-1 software has output options for Avid and the old Sony BVE-9100s — but those EDLs don’t import properly into Vegas, and when you look at the text files, they don’t contain an absolute reference to the proxy clips. VERY frustrating!!
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Hmmm, I’m surprised.
My issue will also be that the producer is a Machead!
Alan
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