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Editing an EDL
It’s a long story, I’ll spare you the details. The question is this: Is there an OS X program that can compare two EDL’s and tell me what’s different? If not, is there just a simple program that let’s me tweak an edl? I need to say…. delete whole reels from it, where ever they exsist, leaving just black holes, sort by source TC, etc.
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yes you can use excel from microsoft, we use it all the time to correct stuff. it all opens in colums, you correct it and save when you done.
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Jeesh – I tried to word like 800 ways. I’ll try excel. Thanks.
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Didn’t work any better than word, unless I missed something. I want each item in it’s own column, so that I can sort by source (like group everythiing by tape number), or sort by say legth, or whatever. Ijust want each thing to have it’s own column.
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Dylan , if you want to compare two EDLs and generate a change EDL (ie EDL two is new cut but what is common to previous cut) then there is an online service that lets you upload the two EDLs and it generates a change EDL with master reels.
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Hey Dylan
I would avoid things like Excel and Word, as they might do strange things to special characters etc. What would probably serve you better would be a full featured text editor; some of these have some powerful text review and editing features.
I prefer to use BBEdit, from Bare Bones Software (https://www.barebones.com), but I know that they also have a less-featured product called Text Wrangler that will also suit your requirements. And Text Wrangler is FREE! I have just done a quick review of functionality of BBEdit vs Text Wrangler and have noted that what you need right now is avavilable in the free version!
To find the differences between two EDLs, just tell the application where the two files are, it will review them, and tell you line-by-line what the differences are.
If differences indeed exist, it will even let you replace or add one line from one file to another, in both directions! Couldn’t be any easier.
Hope this helps, and good luck with it.
Regards
Peter—
Peter Dominic Ryan – Freelance Editor
raycity* media – pdr@raycity.com
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