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Importing EDL into Adrenaline: Help!
Hi,
I cut together a short in Final Cut Pro and I’m onlining from D5 with Avid Adrenaline. Avid had no trouble reconstructing my timeline, but when I try to batch capture my clips I get the following error message: “Cannot Batch Capture clip because format is set to 1080/23P and this is not a 1080/23P clip.” The sequence is set to 1080/23P, and the tape deck seems to be operating properly.
I did notice that the format for the individual clips is listed as 1:1 [blank] whereas when I log a clip into the bin it is listed as DNXT 115 1080/23P. I think this must be what is confusing Avid. However, when I right click on the offline clip and choose modify…set format to…1080/23P, I get an error message that says: “Clips cannot be modified with Set Format. Only sequences can be modified with Set Format.”
What gives?
Thanks,
John
Avid Media Composer Adrenaline/SDI HD/Panasonic AJ-HD3700B Deck -
10 Replies
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Make sure you modifed the sequence first – highlight the seqeunce and choose modify, then format, then 1080p/23.976. If that was already done, load that seqeunce and edit it into a newly created sequence while in a 1080p/23.976 project.
Michael
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Hi Michael,
What do you mean by editing the sequence into another sequence? Remember, I’m a Final Cut Pro guy. The sequence settings read HD 1080p/23.976, and when I click Modify… it says that that modification has already been made.
Thanks,
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Hey Michael,
I dragged the sequence into a new sequence, and it created a duplicate of the first sequence, so I assume that’s what you meant. However, that didn’t help. I’m getting the same error message. And I can’t change the clip format. It says that clips cannot have their format modified.
-John
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Michael,
It will not allow us to modify the sequence, it claims it is allready 1080p/23.97
It is actually showing the imported Master Clips aas 1:1 in the video colum, the format column for these master clips are blank.
Are their particular settings in EDL manager to make the import clean.
BEst,
Dan
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Try Unlinking your clips first at the bin level, then Modifying. Or another way that works is to change the setting (digitize settings I think) that forces your clips to be digitized at the logged resolution. Set res in the Media Creation settings and a batch should use that res instead of what was logged.
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I would try importing the EDL into an NTSC 23.976 project first – then change the TAB format to 1080p/23.976. Also, when importing into a 1080p/23.976, make sure the project type us correctly set in EDL Manager before doing the import.
Michael
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I would also suggest you decompose the HD version of the seqeunce first to see if the clips now read as HD clips or digitize directly from the sequence.
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Tried importing it into the 23.976 ntsc project and got an immediate error, i guess it does not like the 24 frame list,
Tried decomposing, had the same problem.
Tried changing the Format of the sequence down to ntsc but Avid said it only supports converting up to 1080 not back down.I even tried creating a sequence in avid, From know material ingested by the adrenaline sent it out to EDL manager and then bringing it back into the same project and had the same issues. Format was set correctly in EDL manager, source and record set to 24, every time it asks what the list is we set it to 24 as well.
Beginning to feel like this is just a bug. Are there any Best practices for generating and importing a 24 Frame List? We are using CMX3600, is there a more stable list. Is there something in the setting of Avid that I am missing?
Best,
Dan
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EDL manager crashes when you set project type to 23.976 NTSC.
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What’s interesting is that when the edl is first imported there are 4 Master Clips and a sequence.
Those four Master Clips the video field reads 1:1 it looks like they correspond to one each to the three master tapes used in the list with one being a master clip for cg/aux stuff. When I decompose the sequence all the master clips have the correct DnxHD 115 format in the video column, but won’t digitize.
Do they still reference those four original MAster clips somehow?
I’ll give it another shot on monday.
Best,
Dan
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