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EDL is dead… Long live XML!
Seems like Apple is conforming the standards of editing.
Same thing they did with the disc drive, when the iMac was launched.
And by killing of DVD, and ignoring Blue Ray.A new standard of multi layering will appear.
And all video software developers will support the idea.BTW anybody interested in buying my old Betacam SP recorder?
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It would be wonderful to see EDL (an almost-40-year-old technology) replaced with modern, open standards. This was the raison d’être for AAF, but it seems like FCP XML and QuickTime media has more traction in many segments of the industry at the moment.
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I have not saved or exported an EDL since the Clinton administration, perhaps before that. It was back in our A/B roll days. But I can relate to the fact some folks still need to do that and to share the info. I always found the parts that EDL documents least well were invariably the hand-done live effect parts free-handed thru a switcher, that might need a re-edit down the road. The EDL was generally useless for this except to help round up the source tapes to feed it. Unless of course you used temporary work rolls:-) If XML can solve all that, more power to ’em.
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I’ve not done an EDL for 6 years now.
Thats when we were offlining in Avid and conforming & onlining with Discreet *smoke.
Have not had a use for it since switching to FCP and only onlining.
But thats just me.
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am I mad or do red camera rushes represent themselves as virtual tapes in the metadata, with TC? does anyone know if say, FCP offline to scratch conforming R3D is an EDL affair?
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “am I mad or do red camera rushes represent themselves as virtual tapes in the metadata, with TC? does anyone know if say, FCP offline to scratch conforming R3D is an EDL affair?”
It has been, but Assimilate just announced support for FCP XML files in Scratch. Resolve and Baselight also have support, or will soon. It seems like we’re finally turning the corner with respect to the need for the ancient EDL format when moving edits to grading/finishing systems.
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Resolve is EDL at the moment, but that will surely change. Almost everything that is color correction/online related is EDL, but maybe that will change.
Jeremy
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Woops, sorry Chris. I didn’t refresh before posting.
What Chris said!
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Resolve… that will surely change.”
My read on this is that R8 (because it supports multi-layer sequences, would have to do things that way.
Its just a markup language for pete’s sake.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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[Joseph Owens] “Its just a markup language for pete’s sake.”
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International delivery specifications require an EDL with the masters.
No EDL means reject. If FCPX no longer supports EDL then we can’t use FCPX to create international masters.
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