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EDL setup and export – Multi Layers
I am trying to get a better understand of how the exporting of EDLs with a muliti layered timeline works. I am desperately needing to understand how the setup and completion of exporting multi layered EDLs work in FCP. I’ve been reading up on it but nothing haven’t really fully explained the setup process when dealing with multiple layers in the editors cut.
Any thoughts? Perhaps direction to a site that can explain it better for me? Advice? Let me know your thoughts!
Thanks!
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HAS to be an EDL? XML won’t work?
Maybe if you post the use of the EDL (to send to another editor or something?) we can come up with a better workflow than using 25 year old tech for the job.
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If you absolutely need to make an EDL (as Jerry said…its very old technology …from before computer based editing)…
One way is to just duplicate your timeline once for each layer and delete all the layers except the one you are making an EDL for. You will end up with a separate EDL for each layer. An EDL has no way to reflect multiple layers, because there were no layers in linear tape based editing. Just play and record machines.
There are still uses for EDLs, for sure…but often there is a better alternative. What are you using it for?
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Well depending on the camera that is used on our shoots and the finishing facility, for this particular project we needed to do an EDL.
Coming from an Avid based workflow, where all I did was save a bin copy as for finishing, exporting an EDL with multiple layers seemed somewhat odd to me. The whole process was very confusing to me, and seemed like it was way more complicated than it needed to be. Plus it didn’t help that I had a handful of other AEs around me all telling me different ways to do it.
I was also confused with the editor’s timeline. I couldn’t figure out which shots were the shots being used or shots that were just on the sequence and not deleted. It was a pretty messy timeline. Thanks for the advice guys!
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