What format is the Edit List export?

[Craig Howard]

CMX3600 I seem to recall.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[Troy Murison]

It is a CMX 3600 list but not to the strictest of CMX-ness. We have
always had to open Premiere lists in a EDL utility like Pre-Reader or
Phoenix List Manager and then resave them to work with most systems.
The CMX controller that our colourists use will absolutely not open
PPro lists.

I really wish Adobe would get this kind of stuff right. It’s hard to
call yourself ‘Pro’ anything with issues like this IMO. Like you said,
just the shear lack of being able to control what you want/don’t want
in a EDL is frustrating, let alone the fact that it’s bogus when you do
export. I have never taken the time to open/look at a PPro EDL to see
what exactly is wrong. If you knew, you could conceivably edit it in
notepad rather than spend $$ on a utility. I don’t even know if/where
you can get the two I mentioned anymore- they’re really old! EDL Max
is one I’ve seen on the web but it’s really $$$$$. We don’t use PPro
workflow much. I would use PPro more if this and a few other closely
related items worked better/more reliably or even at all, so I just
took a shot at one of those utilities being able to sort it out and
that made the EDL work, so that’s as far as I got.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Baz Leffler]

Also Nuendo does not like a PPro EDL. I have fixed them in notepad but I can’t remember how I did it (but I do have notes somewhere on my system on what I did).

But on a positive note, there is one program I know that likes the PPro EDL… yep… PPro reads them perfectly!!!!

Baz

[Mark Palmos]

Thanks guys,
If you have any tips on what I can do to standardise the edl, that would be great. Otherwise I guess I will print the edl and recreate it manually, only about 50 edits anyway!
tx
mark.