Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

EDL TO REDCINE-X Applescript (beta)

Jonas said:
1.
Well, picking up the right in and outs, and placing them in the timeline would be a good start.
Click to expand...

The slow down and speed up calculation are doable but I've ran into a wall trying to implement that along with reversed clips (playing at -100 speed or any negative speed) : standard EDLs format (and FCP ones) have no support at all for those reversed clips and I just have no way of detecting their presence in your edit from reading the EDL. So if anyone used a reversed clip it will make a bogus timeline in RCX without any warning... which isn't really good.

Instead of losing more time on this antediluvian format I've started writing an XML parser and will make a new XML2RCX script that will be able to replicate what EDL2RCX was doing and offer much more options down the road... once ready it will work unlocked with the same license code as the EDL version, so will be a free update for all registered users.

I'll still post a EDL2RCX 0.4 version soon (fixing the issue James discovered with some specific R3D files) and will continue to fix bugs as they appear but I'd rather move on to XML for any additional feature.

Mikael
 
My script is just a quick and simple EDL to RCX timeline conform tool.
Click to expand...

Great Work.

I will donate.

Please keep working on this.

I really need a tool like this.

RED RUSHES was a life saver.

I am sure this one will be one also.

I like tool that does one thing and does it better than any things else.

Thanks

Michael T.
 
Beta 0.4 posted

fixes bug reported by James (a pretty rare issue that could occur with some R3Ds), plus a few other small fixes... including an optional logging feature to help better track bugs in future versions.
 
HI Mikael; Thank you for the great work!!

I have now used EDL2RCX_0.35 with a EDL from FCP; and everything is working excellent!!
If I was asked was my only wish to have a possibility to adding handels (just 20 frames or so).

Yours,
Christina
 
LaChris said:
I have now used EDL2RCX_0.35 with a EDL from FCP; and everything is working excellent!!
If I was asked was my only wish to have a possibility to adding handels (just 20 frames or so).
Click to expand...

I've just posted the XML version of my script here :

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=567717

You can specify handles, it will also work with retimed clips and should offer more options than this EDL version in the future.

No Avid support yet in the XML version but I'll work on it asap.

Same license will unlock both EDL and XML scripts to unlimited mode so no need to donate for both... unless you really want too :-)

Thanks for the feedback.
 
scan whole disk bug fix

scan whole disk bug fix

new 0.41 beta (get it on thread's 1st post)

fixed a bug when scanning full disk instead of specific folders while relinking R3Ds
 
Avid name change bug fix

Avid name change bug fix

version 0.45 fixes an issue on Avid EDLs if filenames were changed.
Script should now get the correct RED16 name from REEL

XML version has much more features... I will see if I can add retiming detection to this EDL version but it won't be able to work with reversed clips anyway so... better work with XML2RCX for those kind of conform...

Mikael
 
Avid red 16 edl issues

Avid red 16 edl issues

Attached the snapshot what I get has an error when I try to use Avid RED 16 EDL and also attached the EDL itself for your reference.

Using EDL2RCX_0.45 version.
 

Attachments

Might be an issue of absolute or edgecode for timecode and whether the script or REDCINE-X supports either timecode. Avid supports and tracks both timecodes all the time - it is up to the user to select which one is needed in the EDL.

Michael
 
new version 0.5

new version 0.5

G.Balaji, you can try with new version 0.5
should work with your EDL... thanks for feedback.

re time code, it's always best to use Absolute timecode with my script (whenever possible) as there might be a rare issue with edge TC I haven't fixed yet
 
FYI version 0.7 will no longer work with the bogus name/serial floating around...

I received so far 7 donations (thanks guys) for my 2 scripts and even if I didn't wrote them to make any money I was surprised to discover someone was interested in using the full version without supporting future development... and save 15$ !!
 
0.71 Bugfix, previous update broke the script header... thanks James !
0.72 bugfix with generic red16 EDL type detection (the script detects if the EDL is a RED16 avid one, or FCP8 then acts accordingly but something got broken in recent versions with plain simple avid red16 files... thanks jeff)
 
new version 0.75

new version 0.75

much much faster source folder scanning
Avid EDL can now have custom clip names
 

Attachments

Hello

to get the full version you need to send me 15 USD (or more) via paypal

Code will unlock EDL2RCX, XML2RCX and the new (still buggy for now) RCX2XML roundtrip app...

Mikael
 
This worked great! I had a nightmare situation where the colorist of the feature film I cut decided he wanted to recolor the entire project 1 year later. Not a problem except he requested to use Apple's Color when I cut in Avid. Color doesn't except Red16 edl's and the CMX 3600 of course cuts off the reel name. So when I tried to get it into Color it just linked to the completely wrong files. I then tried redcine-x build 487 which has the import edl function. That failed more than Color. It couldn't find the clips either. Enter edl2rcx I ran the program, and it found all the files, created a script file, and I ran it in redcine-x. Now it didn't work in build 487 but I tried it on a the previous build I had on the system 261, and it worked perfectly. Timeline conformed, and now I'm rendering out the ProRes quicktimes necessary to get into color.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top