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Jenny Cederqvist
October 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Problems importing an Avid EDL to FCP

Thank you guys, at least now I know never, ever, ever to do this again.

Floods answer could work, if I had any tapes. Our material is HDV filmed straight on memorycards (.mxf:s that have been converted to .mov for my FCP and .avi for the premiere), so no recapturing tapes is possible.

I guess Ill just sit all night and recut the whole thing with the EDL/timeline as reference. Its just 1,5h of fiktion film.

Just for the future, what is the correct way to communicate between FCP, Avid and Premiere? Is the only way Automatic Duck, or is there nowadays any mastercode for transfering between edits??
Studied the plugin, and would probably be a good thing to put money in, except AE->FCP, which work perfectly together anyways.
Jenny Cederqvist
October 23, 2008 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Problems importing an Avid EDL to FCP

Thank you for your answer. I earlier mentioned that i dont have Automatic Duck, and wont be purchasing one for this one and only project. I have had no problem importing the avid EDL to FCP, as I earlier mentioned. All in and outpoints are right, TC´s right, clips and transissions are right. No problem at all. The material is from an XD-cam, and converted to both avi and mov for smoother editing. The offline has been done on Premiere actually, and thats where the EDL comes from.

My only problem at this moment is Reconnecting the media, thats where everything goes wrong. Why does FCP reconnect the media totally wrong, although the timecode is correct in the EDL and timeline?
Jenny Cederqvist
October 23, 2008 at 1:10 pm in reply to: Problems importing an Avid EDL to FCP

Just for clarification:
– The captured material i am using in FCP is the same as my editor used offlining in Avid, with the exact same timecode and logginginfo.
– I have tried reconnecting the offline items both .avi and .mov rawfootage, with the same outcome -> timecode for edited material changes the same amount.
– have also tried importing the Avid EDL, exporting both EDL and XML from FCP, importin them to a new project, and I still have the same problem.
– the code looks exactly right in TextEdit, right sources and TC

After some research i think im sure the timecode changes exactly the same amount (12s17f) when reconnecting a clip. But another clip seems to move 17s9f.

Now I´m re-cuttin the whole thingamole, just taking the in- and outpoints from the offline media the EDL provided.

Any better way?