How to Open EDL in Excel with TCs in columns ?

[Scott Cole]

Michael is right. Linear edit systems, which are the origin of EDLs always worked with “exclusive outs,” Non-linear edit systems tend to work with “inclusive outs.” In other words, in a typical CMX session (the granddaddy of computerized linear tape to tape editing), the OUT of your current edit became the IN of your next edit. This means that the Timecode listed as the OUT wasn’t actually included, but excluded, in your current edit, hence the term “exclusive outs.” In the non-linear world, the frame you mark as your OUT actually is included in your edit, hence the term “inclusive outs.”

This discrepancy is a bane to almost all editors who are transitioning from linear to non-linear, but explained once, it typically becomes rote. Until you are asked to work with some new device, at which point you begin to wonder, “hmmmm is this out inclusive or exclusive on this device???”

M. Scott Cole
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[Mica Gordon]

Thank you all!!

Best regards.
Micagordon