avoiding edl problems!!!

[Amr El Maghraby]

hi guys

I need a favour if you guys could help a newbie like me, I need to know the exact steps to exporting an EDL and get it to conform on scratch without having any hassles or problems and redo them again in FCP I really need a very detailed step by step in every single setting and what to avoid and what to uncheck and remove what, so every EDL i export conforms right in scratch. thanx :)

[Tom.Wong]

are you the one running the scratch system or bringing it to a house that has the scratch because the scratch artist can tell you all of that. if u are the one running the scratch u can even call up assimilate and they'll probably walk u through everything.

[Amr El Maghraby]

actually i'm a DIT yeah i bring it to the house, I could actually do that but i Wanna hear from all the scratch artists and and FCP editors who did this many times and have experience more likely i know tech supoort wil guide but i thought i should hear from the artists and editors with experience not that there is nothing wrong with assimilate's tech support of course u get what i mean

[John Tissavary]

actually i'm a DIT yeah i bring it to the house, I could actually do that but i Wanna hear from all the scratch artists and and FCP editors who did this many times and have experience more likely i know tech supoort wil guide but i thought i should hear from the artists and editors with experience not that there is nothing wrong with assimilate's tech support of course u get what i mean

Attached is a screen capture of the FCP EDL export settings I recommend to editors. I work regularly on long & short form productions as a finishing colorist using Scratch.

Adhering to the CMX 3600 spec as closely as possible is also helpful, but having non-cmx 3600 compliant features in an edit will not harm the EDL or Scratch's handling of it, just add to the list of things that have to be manually adjusted or moved to VFX. CMX 3600 includes cuts, dissolves, speed changes... and that's it.

cheers,

jt

[Amr El Maghraby]

thank you so much john very useful reply on more thing i'd like to ask, when I have a sequence on final cut pro and i would to take some shot in the middle do i have to cut them out and put them into a new sequence or can i just point where's the in and out and the edl will take what i just marked in the in and out?

[M Most]

Attached is a screen capture of the FCP EDL export settings I recommend to editors.

I hope that having the "drop frame" flag checked was a mistake....

[Amr El Maghraby]

well is it?

[Frank Cueto]

I remember once upon a time (circa 95) we used to be able to move SMPTE wipes via EDL from our avid suites to the ON-LINE suite. I THINK our editing machine (axial 2020) would recognize those and send the proper signal to the GVG 1000 Switcher.

Is this a feature that's still supported now a days in modern systems????
SMPTE wipes might seem gimicky, but it was a great way to composite some shots (leaving the completion percentage of the wipe at a fixed %) and have em come out on the online.

One funny anecdote on this line, it is also very important that the person preparing the edit/EDL knows what he is doing. I remember one EDL that had an even of one frame of duration with a 10,000% slomo....jejeje.

-Frank Cueto