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  • Using Nitris to finish a Liquid Silver project.

    Posted by Sean Coulter on June 18, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Hello,

    Thanks for the view… I’m new to the forums so excuse my errors on this post if any.

    Here’s the gist of what I would like to do.

    I have been editing a project in SD on Pinnacle Liquid 6 and would like to now bring the sequence into an Avid Nitris HD finishing environment for compositing.

    So far I have had no success with exporting via EDL (tried all formats) from the Pinnacle and then pulling it into the Avid. The Avid EDL manager will come up with errors each time I try to import the Pinnacle EDL.

    Has someone pulled this off??? Is there a way to get the two to communicate correctly??? I’ve even tried to massage the edl list with a third party EDL Processor to no avail.

    thanks and best

    Sean

    Grinner Hester replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Grinner Hester

    June 18, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    dude, thats a tall order considering all the gotchas.
    I’d go with a CMX3600 edl.
    You will have to ensure your reel names are no more than 5 characters long. This will cause errors. If you rename then before hand, you can avoid much hassle. Also, ya can’t have more than 4 audio tracks. If ya do, just put those tracks in a seperate edl.
    Of course you can have no filters, plugins or other than smpte transitions in the edl.
    grafix? hold off on em.

  • Sean Coulter

    June 19, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    Hester,

    Thanks for the info… yeah I’m unfortunately locked
    into the EDL’s since the Liquid’s are on a SAN and the
    footage has been ingested into a larger DMM system. So
    the edl’s are set in stone which i think has been the
    roadblock with the Avid’s. I will be working with only
    cuts and minimal dissolves in a five minute feature.

    Here’s question number 2… Can I use Automatic Duck or
    some other EDL “massage/formatter” program to ease the
    CMX3600 and reduce the reel numbers???

    thx in advance and others with similar problems please
    feel free to offer any insight

    Sean

  • Grinner Hester

    June 19, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    you may be able to find some edl tools online that’ll rename your clips for you. do a quick search. It’s amazing how many little tricks you can find out there for nada.

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