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Need EDL Export help…Avid Xpro 5.6.4. (out) to FCP 5.1.2. (in)
I have been at this all day. I can’t get Avid to export an EDL of my timeline. In the EDL Manager Options, I just do not know what settings to use and I have tried every combination. I hit one that actually pumped out an EDL, but when I brought it into FCP, the cuts were there in the timeline but the clip I/Os were all screwed up (slipped out of place).
Can someone point me in the right direction to find the correct mixture of EDL Manager Settings that will allow me to export a successful EDL from my single timeline (2 Video tracks / 4 Audio tracks)? My project is standard DV25 411 / Avid Express Pro 5.6.4 to Final Cut Pro 5.1.2. / Quad Core PPC G5 / OS 10.4.7. / QT 7.1.3. / Kona LHe
Thank you so much in advance 🙂
– Joey
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You don’t mention frame rate, etc. CMX3600 EDL will be your best bet. Have you tried the online help for EDL Manager? It is pretty straightforward to make an EDL.
anything 24fps
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I figured my listing of “standard DV25 411” project meant 29.97 fps.
Thanks for the “RTFM”…I gotcha. Thanks anyway.
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Hi Joey.
Try a CMX3600 EDL.
As long as your reel names are 5 characters or less, you’ve used no plugins or filter, and your not using more th 4 audio tracks, that otta work.
do you have to have two vdeo tracks in the rough cut? This may be confusing the issue, depending on what ya have goin on up there.
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Thanx for the details grin.
– Joey
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I have been at this all day
It is this kind of time wastage you can avoid with a plug-in like our Pro Import FCP for I have been at this all day”>Final Cut Pro. How much is it worth to save “all day”?
— Wes Plate
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Not interested in a sales pitch for a product I would have used once and shelved. I thought selling was frowned upon on the Cow?
Thanks to those that left the helpful details…they worked.
– Joey
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Selling isn’t exactly frowned up. There’s a whole Classified forum, and even a forum dedicated to Automatic Duck: https://forums.creativecow.net/viewforum/116 It’s a very practical solution to your problem. Plus, if you spent “all day” at making an EDL work you lost 8 hours of billable work time (that’s bad), or 8 hours of personal time (even worse!).
Automatic Duck, for your purposes, would have cost you $500. That’s about $62.50 an hour–if you bill more than that per hour for your edits you actually lost money. I suggest next time buying the plug-in and billing the client for it.
Side note: I am curious–why go from Avid to FCP? I’ve seen posts of people going from one system to another, either from FCP to Avid or vice versa. Both are very capable editors–I just wonder why people don’t just start and finish on one system, especially with all the headache of getting everything from one system to another.
Michael.
No project is ever finished, only abandoned in a state of near completion.
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Hey Michael,
All due respect, I know about the duck forum…which is why I posted in here and didn’t expect to get a pitch.
AD is not a practical solution to my problem at all. This was a friendly request for help to export an EDL (I have never done it before) for a personal project (my Demo) that has been “ongoing” (updated every month) for years (started on Express DV 3 – upgraded all the way currently to Express Pro 5.6.4). I have finally got to the point where I no longer use Avid so I want it and the one remaining Avid project archived & off my system completely (now on a Quad / FCP 5.1.2 / Kona LHe / KL-Box). The Avid codecs are reaking havoc with incompatibilities with FCP 5.1.2. & my Kona 3.3. drivers – causing apps to crash left & right. I pulled the Avid codecs out – all problems went away.
This experimentation / time spent with an EDL cost me nothing – nada – niente. There is no deadline and I didn’t want to spend any $$$ just to get my timeline into FCP when an EDL is MORE than sufficient (and Avid Editors KNOW this). If I was earning my $75 per hr rate for this project, I would have gotten Automatic Duck and billed the client for it…period.
What I am not fond of is the “kick him when he’s down” posts of developers that say “You see… this poor shnook coulda saved an entire day’s pay with OUR PRODUCT” and links to my post begging for help – totally ignoring the request within. I hate being used as the “poor shnook” in a pitch – especially without my consent 😉 …also makes me not want to buy the software if I DO need it.
Addressing your “why not stay on one system” comment, sometimes an Editor walks into a job that has been cut on an Avid and the client for some unknown reason wants to finish it on his new Quad in his basement – which has FCP. The client pays…he gets what he wants. Some of us in small markets don’t get the luxury or staying on one system all the way through a project. It is a headache to be SURE… but the client is king and his money’s green.
So you see…all I needed was what Grinner gave me…a few details and not to spend $500 to get my Demo to FCP.
Thank you Grinner…you are a gentleman & a scholar.
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What I am not fond of is the “kick him when he’s down” posts of developers that say “You see… this poor shnook coulda saved an entire day’s pay with OUR PRODUCT” and links to my post begging for help – totally ignoring the request within.
I’m sorry you perceived that. It was totally not my intent.
I didn’t have all the backstory on how you knew all about Automatic Duck’s products, how you didn’t want to use it on this personal project, etc. I read “I’ve been fighting a problem all day” and I thought “I wonder if he even knows that this isn’t a battle worth fighting?” So I was trying to help.
Not everyone has heard of our products, so when they are applicable, I don’t feel bad at all about suggesting them. Next time you see a post from “Wes Plate”, you will know not to bother reading it.
Thanks.
— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck
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