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EDL is dead… Long live XML!
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Resolve8 is supporting xml! I was so happy to read that news 🙂
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[Sam Cole] “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.”This is very true. In all of my experience at broadcast networks we have used EDLs for both Footage and Stills Logs and Music Cues which have always been a requirement for every Production Bible we have ever created to be delivered with the masters. Without EDL, Final Cut Pro X cannot be used in a broadcast setting.
Will this change? Probably, but something’s gotta give somewhere. Most networks that I’ve worked with will still require masters to be delivered on tape but this may be changing too. It’s a mad world we live in today.
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[Matthew Sonnenfeld] “Most networks that I’ve worked with will still require masters to be delivered on tape but this may be changing too”
Changing by the minute. The tragic events in Japan have caused the nets to reconsider their requirements.
Delivery requirements always lag a few years behind the technology. For that matter, so do budgets.
It takes awhile for the less technical minded (business affairs/accounting) to wake up to the fact that the world has changed and address those changes within the budgets/delivery requirements.The larger the organization, the slower the change. But, change WILL happen eventually. Inevitably. Incrementally.
Mark
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As long as OMF and AAF are included, I really don’t care much about EDL’s.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Matthew Sonnenfeld] “This is very true. In all of my experience at broadcast networks we have used EDLs for both Footage and Stills Logs and Music Cues which have always been a requirement for every Production Bible we have ever created to be delivered with the masters. Without EDL, Final Cut Pro X cannot be used in a broadcast setting.”
Agreed that EDL is still a critical feature (and one that I still rely on), both for interoperability and delivery — I just can’t wait for it not to be. Interchange desperately needs an update.
Walter Soyka
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The only time we use EDL today is when sending offline-cuts to get graded (source tends to be film or RED). However, if Resolve retains solid XML-support this is a no -issue. In Sweden broadcast-masters have been filebased since 2007 I think and we havent ever had EDL-requirements here.
Solid OMF-support is however a must as all audio-editing is done in Protools.
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