Link FCP media to EDL

[Scott Simmons]

Sure. If you go to File > Import > EDL and the choose from the pop up Import for reconnect, and the do a reconnect of the media once it makes a new sequence it should be fine. You may have to point FCP to the correct quicktime clips as it will look for the names of the clips. FCP does not use the same kind of media management as Avid. You may get a warning saying certain attributes have changed. I would do a test and see what happens. I have done this with a moderate amount of success.

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[Bob Flood]

Rick

I have been wrestling with a similar issue. I have an edit* system and have been trying to get projecxts migrated over to FCP. Here is waht i have found:

I can generate “almost batch files” out of edit by exporting a text file of the contents of a bin, then capturing that

I have to format my edls so the clip name comes across as a comment or a note, then i can usually relink pretty easily although it is far from automatic.
I have been messig around with an application called CatDV, which can change text files into xml files. By some clever manipulating of the scene and comment info, i can re approximate pretty closely my edit timeline but i am still “de bugging” as i cannot carry over transistions and such

Since you are coming out of an avid, you may be able to use Automatic Duck to make a more robust transfer of your sequences, rather than using EDL’s

and when all is said and done, the current FCP workflow when dealing with EDL’s is to create a bin of clips with names based on the reel numbers, and then you can recapture. Unfortunately FCP names the clips in the order of the events in the EDL so that if you have 5 shots from reel 123, FCP name the clips 1231, 1232, 1233 and so on.

my 2 cents which i hope may help

bee eph

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Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.