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modifying EDL
Hi, here’s a tricky one. I’ve a 2 hour timeline with hundreds of clips from dozens of wild tapes. This is now a new best ofs compile. Natural History clips. At this stage I online in HD. This new master compile becomes the only tape that for the moment that I want to access. Now the tricky bit. I wish to batch the entire 2 hour tape at low rez to 1 master clip, but I need to break down to the original master clips, this is so the client can paper track to a code display DVD. Hope this makes sense. I’ve tried the obvious, consolidating, but because Avid is too darn clever, or too user friendly, I can’t break the link.
thanks in advance,
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Create an EDL of the sequence.
Batch capture your 2 hour tape.
Highlight master clip.
Import ALE with option to merge based on knows source tape.
This will create subclips based on the original events.Now the EDL needs to be converted into an ALE beforehand. There is a CMX EDL import option as one of its sources. The record side becomes the START and the source timecode becomes SOUND TC (but you can copy past that into an AUXTC column as needed).
In theory this should work. The CMX to ALE was implemented in 1992 as a means to create log files from transfers done with an audio layback as a separate process. I suspect this still works.
Michael
anything 24fps
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