Avid EDL > Premier 2.0 EDL > Avid

[Troy Murison]

PPro only accepts/makes CMX 3600 EDLs, so keep that in mind. Also, PPro acts funny with many EDL items, like comments and sometimes transitions and DFTC/NDFTC sources. It does work, but you just have to watch it closely. PPro is VERY limited on what you can control on EDL export- ie: you can’t control sort order, how to handle b-reels, whether or not to include comments/names/notes, etc. In Avid, be sure to consolidate your sequence before exporting your EDL, otherwise you’ll end up doing the same thing in PPro (project trimming) to avoid capturing whole tapes (unless that’s what you want). No point in including clip names, comments, etc. when exporting from Avid, they don’t come through. Also, I would do seperate EDLs for audio unless you are capturing lots of raw footage- then you’d have to capture twice! If that’s the case, just make sure your EDL only includes ch1 and ch2 audio, 3&4 should be none. That’s what I can think of off the top of my head! You would think you could use AAF, but in my experience it just doesn’t work well, if at all. And using PPro AAF in Avid really doesn’t work at all (I’ve never had it work). Good luck!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Bouke Vahl]

Besides this very usefull info, bear in mind that in fact Premiere always was good in EDL’s and that AVID seems to have forgotten how they started (only EDL’s for output…)

Again, keep it simple.
And if you want to avoid a lot of unneeded redigging, make an ALE of your decomposed imported sequences and use ALE cleaner to work on that.

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hth

Bouke

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[Tentoesover]

Thanks for the great info. Much appreciated.

[The Replace]

I am also facing almost asimilar dillemma, I work with PPro a lot but because I am doing broadcast work I am required to take my sound for final mix at the broadcasters’ studios in pro tools. The guys over there require only omf.And guess what? cant get that out of premiere could there be a plugin or some other way? I have tried the aaf method wihout a success( I get an access violation error) then the edls dont work completley with avid its way too confusing. Then finally in final cut pro(by the way it can nicely export omf) the edl from premiere opens but the reel number is confused and mediaduration(in and out) are no where to be found. I hope someone out there has the solution. Pliz help me before I lose a contract

The Replace

[Bouke Vahl]

Reelnames ‘should’ translate good if you keep the names simple, if you can use only UPPERCASE and or numbers. No spaces, no funny chars, and keep them short (max 8 characters if you use CMX 3600)

Next, if you need to be compatible with FCP and/or AVID, do yourself a favour and switch.
FCP is like 1K, AVID MC is 4.7K, Avid XpressPro is 1.8?

Dunno how big your contracts are, but i hope you should be able to write off a XpressPro copy on this project only. (Assuming you don’t have a Mac and want to stick to PC…)

It makes no sense to keep on swimming agains the stream. Just go with the flow…

hth,

Bouke

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