[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

Thank you!

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Gabriele Cannizzaro

[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

When I say “I don’t know if this is standard practice, but it would have saved me a lot of time and trouble and an installation of the CC” I was referring to the lab not being clear with what they wanted from the EDL, not to you 🙂

Thanks again for your help, it’s been a nice learning experience.

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Gabriele Cannizzaro

[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

I think what we’re experiences comes from a number of bugs in CS6. First of all, the “Reveal to project” only works if in the subclip in the timeline the video is linked to the audio. If not, nothing happens. There are no multiple copies in the project, and I’ve checked all clips and they all spot the right tape number. Now, after a few Quit and reopen, the Reel Name in the properties of the clips in the timeline are all set to the right number. Still, the EDL shows “time” as the tape number, but only for half of them! Go figure.

In the end I did use CC to export the EDL, only to be told by the lab (after 6 e-mails and 2 phone calls) that they didn’t care about the clip names, they only wanted the timecodes to start with a value corresponding to the lab roll (01:00:00:00 for roll one and so on). I don’t know if this is standard practice, but it would have saved me a lot of time and trouble and an installation of the CC.

Thank you very much for your help Walter.

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Gabriele Cannizzaro

[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

Even though I’ve changed the “Tape name” in every single clip, something strange is happening. I tried re-exporting the EDL and now some clips have the tape name correctly, others (60%) still show “time”. Looking at the properties for every single clip the Tape Name property doesn’t show up. Instead, there’s a Reel Name, which is set ti “time” for every clip, even those that show the right value in the EDL. Again, in the project panel there’s no “time” string anymore. Is there a way to “refresh” the metadata?

I’m downloading the CC on a separate machine just to be safe, but I’d really like to sort this out in CS6 because that’s still my main suite.

Thanks again for your help!

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Gabriele Cannizzaro

[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

It’s amazing that a feature that would seem so basic had to wait for CC…

Here’s a line of my EDL:

030 time V C 00:11:44:24 00:11:53:14 00:07:10:10 00:07:19:00
* FROM CLIP NAME: LR12_SL30_TK02

The first two timecode entries refer to the original file, IE the lab roll. So that’s sorted. What’s wrong is the clip name. [b]LR12_SL30_TK02[/b] is of course the name of the subclip. I need it to be the name of the original file (which has the reference to the lab roll number) or a way to be able to force it. I tried changing the Tape metadata but it did nothing for the EDL.

I can solve this problem editing the EDL manually and changing all the clip names with the appropriate lab roll number, but I was looking for a way to avoid it. The Tape metadata would have been great but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Thank you

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Gabriele Cannizzaro

[Gabriele Cannizzaro]

Hi Walter, thanks for your answer.

We shot about 25 rolls, but the lab that developed the film cut them and put them back together into 4 big rolls. Also, for some reason, they joined the pieces in what seems to be a semi random order. So now we have Lab Roll 1 with lots of takes from different rolls in it. They telecined it and produced 4 files, one per roll.

We turned those files into subclips, synched them and edited them. Now we want to rescan those 4 rolls at 2k, and the lab requested an EDL, which should reference the 4 big rolls (ie the files before they were trimmed, not the subclips). Having the filename in the EDL would solve the problem, but I didn’t find that option you mentioned. I’m using CS6. Am I missing something?

Cheers

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Gabriele Cannizzaro