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prepping FCP project for online on Da VInci
First of all, thank you all who responded to my earlier post re: how to move a FCP project to Avid. In my case, I didn’t have to purchase Automatic Duck. The post house did it for me.
However, we encountered another problem. We went through telecine a second time of particular shots which then had to be prepped for compositing on a Da Vinci.
The EDL that I had created in FCP could not be read by the Da Vinci. Apparently, the Da Vinci does not read EDLs. I had also given the company my entire FCP project with sequences and everything, which I had mentioned earlier they converted with Automatic Duck.
Still the Da Vinci had to be ‘tricked’, because it “reads outgoing timecode” ??????? What in the world????
I have never heard of this before. If you can’t export an EDL or a sequence for the Da Vince, what timecode reference CAN you give the machine?
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[Annette Aryanpour] ” Apparently, the Da Vinci does not read EDLs.”
Really? I thought that was the only way daVinci’s work. by reading EDL’s of the cut list. That’s all colorists talk about, getting the EDL to do the daVinci session.
Are you sure you gave them the right type of EDL from FCP? And was your timeline properly set up to create that EDL?
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I gave them an EDL with source TC, so it had all the different hours from hour one to thirteen, but their Da Vinci could only read the timeline TC which, of course, starts at Hour 1.
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When you output an EDL from FCP you have an option to sort by “source” or “program”. both EDLs will contain the same information, but the shots will be sorted in a different order.
“Source”, AKA a “C” mode list, sorts by tape number & TC, “program”, AKA an “A” mode list, sorts in the same order as the shots in your timeline.
Make sure that your giving the DaVinci an EDL sorted by “program”.
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thank you. The other sort option I see is ‘Master’, which I guess would be ‘program’, right. What I find confusing is, if I give the Da Vinci the ‘program’ sort option, how does it know which TC to pull from the respective source tapes?
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Hi Annette
The DaVinci should be able to read the EDL whatever sort mode is used.
The sort mode simply determines in which order the shots are accessed.However, it would seem very odd to be using a DaVinci to do an autoconform which one would normally do in an online suite which is optimised for that purpose and most probably very much cheaper than a DaVinci.
If the source is already on tape then you just simply send the master tape (once its conformed) and the cutlist to the DaVinci for a tape-to-tape grade. Then the colorist doesn’t have to worry about the source tapes.
EDL format CMX 3600 – all options, notes etc turned off. Has been working for me for many years.
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