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Scary OMF from EDLManager (Overlap-EDL, Filmproject)
Hi all!
IŽm currently working as an assistant on a 16mm Project that is cut negative but as an “Overlap-Cut” – that´s what it is called in Germany. Sometimes it is also called HD-Filmedit. DonŽt know and didnŽt find the official term. ItŽs a negative cut of a sequence with handle-frames before and after the edited scenes, so that there is no jumping/moving of the film frame (near the edit) when you do the telecine of the film.
So, my workflow is as follows:
1. I have a sequence edited from dailies (lab-reels transferred to BetaSP)
2. I export the sequence as an edl (format cmx3600)
3. The negative-cutter converts the avid-edl to an “overlap-cutlist” with handles of 10 or 16 frames before and after the edited clips. And he generates a second edl for the online which reflects the original avid-sequence. But now the timecodes of this “Overlap-Online-EDL” are no longer connected to the lap-reels or BetaSP-Dailies but to the overlap-cutted negative.
4. I or the post-house convert the “Overlap-Online-EDL” to an omf with the help of the edl-manager and do the online with the telecine-transferred-overlap-negaitvecut.
BUT: There seams to be a problem with point 4. The EDLManager converts the edl in a strange way with errors in the omf that are pretty scary. Look at the pictures….
https://img261.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=overlap2.jpg
Sometimes the are dissolves where dissolves canŽt be normaly placed. Sometimes parts of the clips are missing. The source-edl looks ok and reflects the original avid-sequence-edl, but not the converted omf…
Does anybody have any ideas, what the problem could be? Is this a known bug in EDLMAnager? Any solution?
A friend imported the edl in premiereCS and there were no problems, but he could not export it as an omf…
Regards Martin
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1 Reply
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I answered this on the Avid forum…
Michael
Michael Phillips
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