[Larry Di stefano]

[Kevin Cannon] “f you open the EDL in a text editor, is a reel name like “05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV” actually truncated to eight characters like “05. OFF “? CMX3600 doesn’t have enough characters to have that long a reel name, regardless of punctuation.

Usually I do this (also because FCP editors tend not to add reel numbers):

Export the EDL with the file name in comments, you get a line in the comments that says something like “from source file: 05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV”.

Then select in config>settings tab “extract reel numbers from EDL comments” so that when you import the EDL, it will come in”

I’m working on this same principle, using the file names as reels. DaVinci is set to extract reel numbers from EDL comments and Assist using reel numbers.

I’ve tested the pathname and it extracts the filename correctly. In the Conform EDL window the reel numbers don’t show up correctly. this only seems to happen for clips that are named as above, with two digits, a period, space, then other characters. The other reel names are extracted fine.

the same clip in the media pool highlighted below.

Thoughts?

[Larry Di stefano]

Yeah, I wanted to avoid that since there are a lot of picture with moves on them and a new director so I’m expecting to have to change the pan/tilt on the photos. I was hoping to correct the images in DaVinci to give me maximum flexibility when outputting from FCP. I guess I’ll adjust the images in Photoshop.