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EDL from Vegas
I am quoting a job where they say I have to have an EDL from either Avid or FCP.
The video has to be shot on Digibeta.A couple of questions.
What are the implications of importing DigiBeta datarate into Vegas. Is it practicle…and what about output to 4.2.2 onto a Digibeta VTR?Then there is this insistence that the EDL be from the either Avid or FCP. As I understand it Vegas in a bit weak in this area. I’d love to be wrong.
I don’t want to have to buy or rent one of these two systems if Vegas can do it all. I am quite happy with Vegas.
I’d appreciate any comments.
Geoffjak -
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you would use a decklink card to capture to get digibeta into your computer and it would be 4:2:2 ( data rate approx 20MB/s) ..
or you find a production/post house that uses decklink and have them capture and print back to digibeta = you take them the finished edit ( rendered using BM codec or if they have vegas then you could use sony YUV codec) on a 1394 external drive..what’s with EDL = they are 20+years old and very limited in what you can do between different apps – however using same app you can do alot more ( IE: avid to avid vs. avid to FCP ) .. avid came out with a much more robust EDL thing they call AAF ..V6 can use/create AAF .. you should look up the AAF spec’s as not every thing you do in one app is exportable to another app … keep effects to a min , compositing to min ..
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Yeah, EDL is a total headache since it was never designed to convey much info, and generally just an A/B track. If you have to provide EDL then you should work on the system they need.
Another possibility might be to move your finished project from Vegas to one of the others just to produce the EDL. But that seems like asking for trouble.
Rob Mack
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