media management question about edl importing etc

[David Roth weiss]

Bob,

Just curious, how many events on your spreadsheet???

DRW

[Bob Flood]

DRW

dood! i was hoping i’d get you to chime in here eventually. all we need is palmos and its old home week!

man im intigued by this FCP. it does a bit more than edit in real time, and im sure eventually i’ll get my chops down on the interface. but as to your question:

I have about 5 EDL’s, with a mix of interviews, animation, lower third tga’s and b roll cutaways. I’ll convert the animation out of edit to animation qt,
and the tga’s should import so all i need to do is capture the interviews and b roll. which is probably about 200 clips,

i also have a spreadsheet with about 300 to 500 clips (you should have seen it before i narrowed it down, had about 2000!)

so, just to re-iterate, some of the shots on the EDL’s are common ie the same shot appears in more than one EDL, as well as being common to shots in the spreadsheet, overall probably 100-150 shots on the EDLs are also in the spreadsheet. (the edls are final edits, the spreadsheets are outakes and alt versions not used, as well as whats in the EDLS)

the only elements that are JUST in the EDL, as far as originating on tape, are the interviews.

so without delving too deeply into the workings of this whole FCP Master Clip, Sub Clip, Independent Clip thing. I dont know how to save myself from having to recap 150 shots, or more, twice.

soory about long wind, but i wanted to make it clear. I also want to make it clear that advice directly given here would be great, but i would be happy with web links to info as well!

thanx again

bee eph

[Mark Raudonis]

Bob,

What you’re essentially asking is, “How do I move my discreet project to FCP?”

check out Automatic Duck. (www.automaticduck.com) They have many different conversion programs that may address what you’re trying to do.

mark

[David Roth weiss]

Bob,

Its funny that so many Edit*ors think everything has be rendered, when in fact FCP is at least as RT as Edit* if not more so as you said.

I wish I could say my luck with EDLs from Edit* had been stellar, but alas, migrating jobs between the boxes ha been somewhat more dificult than I would have hoped for. I had things that winded up missing, and it was a pain to figure out what was lost. Most importantly, test a few EDLs first, and figure out which flavor works best. I can’t remember if I had better luck with CMX lists or some other flavor, but some work and others simply don’t. You will know immediately, as the timeline will eoither be populated by lots of events (working), or by one or two(not working). My second pick worked, but I’m so busy today I can’t dredge up that memory clearly. As for the spreadsheet, that one I have no idea about???

DRW

[Bob Flood]

DRW
thanx!

i am sure the the rendering issues are merely because the project i am in now was not set up properly

as for EDLs, i had read elsewhere that FCP is finnicky about what edls to accept

thanx!

[Bob Flood]

thanx mark

unfortunately, i have no budget in this case to buy software. its really more for my convenience.

i think the program may not work, as the NLE i am coming from never really

got “project compatible” with the other discreet products, and was discontinued years ago (yet it is still used here and elsewhere)

I beleive that before the product was dropped, the best i could do was transfer sequences from edit to smoke, not whole projects

thanx again

If i figure a way to do it, ill post it here

bee eph