Data Conform from an EDL?

[Michael Phillips]

Try “relink to selected” as long as the tape name and timecodes match, you should be good.

Michael

Michael Phillips

[Gabe Thorburn]

There’s the re-link under the clip menu, but where is the re-link selected option?

[Terence Curren]

The best way is to move all the original tape captures and recapture them in Avid. You can do this with automatic duck by taking all the master clips and stringing them out in a timeline. Then automatic Duck that to Avid. When you do that, you bet a new bin with all the master clips in it which you can then recapture.

Since you have already recaptured, you have to do a little more work. First you need to understand how Avid relinks. It goes by source (tape name) and timecode. But, there is a little trick here in that you don’t see the entire tape name in most cases.

Avid adds the project name to the tape name when it is first captured. So even though you see tape #1, Avid sees tape #1-whatever it’s called project name. This is why you could have two tape #1s that don’t relink.

To make sure they are all seeing the same tape name, put all your recapture clips and the sequence in the same bin. Now go to the “set bin display” menu for that bin. Turn on “Sources” and “Show reference clips”

You will now see everything used in that sequence, along with all your recaptured clips. Now sort by tape name. Select all with the same tape name (All the tape #1s for example) and select modify. (Right click will get you there) In the pulldown menu select “set source”.

You will now see all the tape names in the project. If you se two or more of any tape name, that is because they have different project names attached to them. (You will now se the project name with the tape.) Now select the first tape #1 (per my above example) and say okay. You will have ot go through a few dialog boxes to make this stick.

Now if you select “relink” on your sequence, all the tape 1 clips will relink.

Terence Curren
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[Job Ter burg]

If your project was shot double system and has been synced in FCP, I think you’ll find that you will not be able to truely relink both picture and sound to Avid sync clips.

In a similar situation last year (120 min documentary), I bit the bullet and used the EDL to get the TC numbers, then manually replaced each and every shot on the timeline, video and audio.

13 reels can be a lot (10-min or 20-min reels?), but if you’re going to do this right, you might be better off spending a few days rebuilding the sequence manually, rather than spending days finding out that an automated process may not work.

[Gabe Thorburn]

Thanks for the help.

Since this is a film-based project, we are unable to use Automatic Duck to export the all the master clips strung out in the timeline and maintain keycode metadata. That’s why we digitized off the ALE in Avid.

We’ve gotten the clips to re-link using the modify source function, but we are faced with one other obstacle. Is there any way that we can re-link the timeline to subclips (that are based on the original master clips), and not the master clips themselves? We still have to overcut the movie manually if we are unable to do this.

Thanks again for the help.

[Job Ter burg]

I would love to be able to pull that off, but I don’t think you can. One last try before manually overcutting would be to try “Relink to Selected”.