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Filemaker > Excel > ALE > Import to Avid?
Hi everyone,
I’m sure someone has solved this — but I cannot seem to. I work on many archive shows where clips are first logged in a program like Filemaker (or similar). What I would like to be able to do is export a CSV or Excel file out of Filemaker, reformat it to match my bin headers in Avid, and import it as if it were an ALE.
I’ve done some testing exporting existing archive clips to see how they format in Excel. Then I’ve tried making that from scratch and importing it into Avid and it doesn’t seem to come in. I’ve read Michael’s 24p PDF on ALE import wonkiness, and I’m inclined to believe that it’s just too fragile to allow this to work. For example, even when I export a bin to ALE and round trip it back in, a ton of custom metadata that I’ve entered gets completely lost, even though it’s right there in the ALE I exported in the first place. And, for some reason, as soon as I alter the ALE in Excel and save it (even though it’s still a .ALE file format) a round trip back into Avid no longer takes.
Any ideas would be helpful! If anyone has had success, I would love to hear about it.
JD
JD Marlow
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1 Reply
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I sent an email to the address provided. Once we figure this out, I will post back here so everyone can read the solution (assuming there is one…). 🙂
Michael
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