Reconnect based on timecode and reel

[Eduardo Castillo-visani]

Hi Shane, Thanks for all your advise, the test I did before i did it in FCP and doesn’t work either. when i try to create a EDL of my edit in FCP to reconect it to the Uncompressed footage is when the message i describe before comes up.

[Eduardo Castillo-visani]

and also the EDL is a CMX EDl that should work in FCP with out problems, I check the EDl and is fine, the Qt files work fine in avid, and the TC in the EDL match to the files is when I reconnect the media that the problem started. as you can see en the example of the timecode i put before is random and doesn’t match to the edl, when I reconnect the media seem to overwrite the TC information and put everything to 00:00:00:00

[Shane Ross]

Don’t use an EDL. There is no reason to if you are offlining and onlining in FCP. Just take your finished cut and reconnect it to the uncompressed media (taking the low res media offline), then adjust the sequence settings to match. No EDL needed.

And if you were going to make an EDL from an Avid to FCP…a simple CMX EDL won’t work. It is for this reason that you need Automatic Duck (www.automaticduck.com) to handle the EDL transfer from Avid to FCP. The EDL on it’s own simply doesn’t work….as you witnessed.

Shane

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[Eduardo Castillo-visani]

Hi Shane,
Your help was really good, thank you very much.
Now I have to buy the software and see how it will work, because I’ve got more than 100 Umatic tapes to digitise for archiving and then make the QTDV for the offline in an Avid machine of the same footage.
Thanks.
Eduardo

[Dylan Reeve]

I can’t comment on exporting the clips from FCP and retaining accurate timecode, as I haven’t really done a lot of that.

However, what I can tell you is that Avid doesn’t support QT timecode (I don’t know why, it annoys me).

But there is an application that will help, it’s called MetaCheater. It will read the QT timecode from a selection of files, and generate an ALE file for import to Avid. The clips generated from the ALE can then be linked to the source QT files in Avid using the ‘Batch Import’ function.

Metacheater can be found here:
https://www.staticpictures.com/metacheater

This workflow does work well, and will get clips in Avid from QT with correct timecode data.

However I don’t think you can relink a sequence from EDL against existing media based on timecode and reel in FCP in the way you would in Avid. FCP doesn’t work that way.

So even once you have the clips in Avid with correct timecode and have made a cut, I don’t think you’ll be able to take that EDL to FCP and link to the 10bit material.

Is there any reason you’re not doing the whole lot in either Avid or FCP? It is easy enough to cut in one and redigitise in the other, but having to relink against existing media is going to complicate it.