AVID Ale Import

[Troy Murison]

Not that I know of. If you have a Avid around, you could make bins
then lay all the offline clips onto a timeline in ascending TC order
then export a CMX EDL though. That would give you a list to conform
in PPro. What was the ALE created from? If it’s really just a tab
delimited (?) text file, PPro may be able to import it as a batch list.
Look up batch list in PPro help. There are specific formatting
requirements that I can’t remember for it to work right. Good luck!

-Troy Murison
Flyingspot
Seattle

[Rich Reynolds]

Troy,

These were all created on a shoot in AVID media log. One problem with edl’s is no comments and truncating of source names.

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Rich

[Troy Murison]

Yeah, that would be bad…

It seems like there should be a way to get a tabbed list out of ALE
and then import that into PPro, but I’m not in front of either system
right now, so I don’t know if the list from ALE will be formatted
right for PPro. I know each needs a certain order (ie: reel name,
source in, source out, name, comment, etc.) but I can’t remember
what that order is for either system or whether they’re ‘compatible’.
I’ll try to look into this later today….

-Troy.

[Harm Millaard]

Best way to import ALE is to go to your local pub and order some..

Harm Millaard

[Rich Reynolds]

Thanks Troy!

[Troy Murison]

Rich,

Sorry for the delay- too busy and forgetful mind here….
Your post on Adobe’s site reminded me. Here’s what I found
today and posted on Adobe forums as well:

I was able to import a short list from Avid Express Pro. Here’s
what worked for me:

In Avid, I exported my bin as Avid ALE
Rename that file with a .txt extension instead of .ALE
In PPro, go to Project/Import Batch List and select the .txt file

That was it- in my case it worked. I didn’t expect it to work though
because the ALE and PPro’s requirements for formatting are different.

ALE goes like this:
Clip name, Start time, end time, Tape name, drive

PPro batch lists go like this:
Tape name, Start time, End time, Clip name

When I imported the ALE, the drive information from the ALE was placed
in the Log Note column of the PPro project window.

What I figured I would do if this did not work was to open the ALE
file using Excel, re-arrange the columns to the PPro batch order, save
it as a .txt file and then import that. I didn’t try that, and I’m
out of time, but that could be an option as well.

Good luck, I hope this helps!!!!

-Troy Murison
Flying Spot
Seattle