Urgent! Please help! EDL problem!

[James Page]

Hi,

I'm on a really tight deadline, and i have a project, edited in Premiere CS4, that i want to export an EDL from to take to a Avid DS grading suite.

Before i edited i subclipped everything, but now when i want to export an edl, the edl references subclips, not the master files.

I'm very worried that the edl won't point to the R3D master files when opened in Avid DS.

Can someone either put my fears to rest or suggest a way around the problem?

Thankyou!!!!

Jim

 

[MichaelP]

What are the sources referenced in the EDL? They should be the same as the master clip I would think.

Michael

 

[James Page]

What are the sources referenced in the EDL? They should be the same as the master clip I would think.

Michael

Thanks for replying, here's an excerpt from the edl:

014 B004_C07 V C 16:41:46:04 16:41:51:04 00:00:45:05 00:00:50:05
* FROM CLIP NAME: 01a_T7_04_Aaron walking4_B004_C076_0615CJ_001.R3D.Subclip001

015 B004_C06 V C 16:01:15:05 16:01:20:01 00:00:50:05 00:00:55:01
* FROM CLIP NAME: 01a_T4_03_Aaron walking_B004_C064_0615M6_001.R3D.Subclip001

016 B004_C06 V C 16:09:42:09 16:09:54:16 00:00:55:01 00:01:07:08
* FROM CLIP NAME: 01a_T4_08_Aaron walking_B004_C069_0615MP_001.R3D.Subclip001

017 B004_C02 V C 01:30:33:18 01:30:39:11 00:01:07:08 00:01:13:01
* FROM CLIP NAME: 02_18_02_MS Busstop_B004_C023_061406_001.R3D.Subclip001

018 B004_C02 V C 10:08:57:05 10:08:59:18 00:01:13:01 00:01:15:14
* FROM CLIP NAME: 02_19_01_MS Girl_B004_C025_06149G_001.R3D.Subclip001

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

017 B004_C02 V C 01:30:33:18 01:30:39:11 00:01:07:08 00:01:13:01
* FROM CLIP NAME: 02_18_02_MS Busstop_B004_C023_061406_001.R3D.Subclip001

018 B004_C02 V C 10:08:57:05 10:08:59:18 00:01:13:01 00:01:15:14
* FROM CLIP NAME: 02_19_01_MS Girl_B004_C025_06149G_001.R3D.Subclip001

CS4 seems to cut the reel name to an absolute 8 including the "_" so it only keeps 2 digits for the clip name, in the above exemple B004_C02 is used for both clip 023 and 025

I just wrote a new applescript modified from my FCP red16 script to deal with CS4 EDLs... I'll see with James if it works all the way once imported into an Avid DS and I might need more CS4 test EDLs to make it fool proof with dissolves, slow downs but an automated workaround seems possible...

 

[MichaelP]

The scripts will be great for the EDL correction process, but as an editor I shudder at the thought of having to work with clips names as per the above... yikes!

Michael