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Avid EDL to Premier
Can a 20 year old Avid EDL be imported into Premier?
A Director I work with wants to re-edit one of his old films.
About 20 years ago, it was shot on film, transferred to Beta, then edited on Avid. He recently had the original film transferred to to digital. It’s a documentary, and has many hours of interviews and Broll.
He would like to start with a reassemble of his original EDL (even if it comes together rough). That way he can see his old story (if we can start with a rough of the original sequence). Then re-edit to update the story.
It’s OK if the timing on some of the edits is off, color-correction gone, etc. He just wants to avoid having to find all the old clips (the logging is gone) and recreating the original cut just by watching the film, and re logging all the footage.
If we do this transfer into Premier, the film will be finished in Premier and live that way (not be transferred back to Avid). We will also consider bringing the old EDL into a modern Avid (instead of Premier). Our consideration is that neither of us has used Avid in a few years, so we’d have to get reacquainted.
For now I’d just like to get an idea of how challenging it would be to import a 20year old Avid EDL into Premier and relink to media to the sequence.