EDL and drop frame

vitalforce wrote on 5/14/2004, 5:44 AM

Just a follow-up question from an earlier post reply which included this advice from SonyEPM (this refers to preparing an EDL export which can be read by an Avid editor):

"Capture, make sure you name the tapes correctly since the next editor will be recapturing. Do your cuts-only edit in Vegas in an NTSC DV (drop frame) timeline. When done, tools>scripting> export edl. (Filmy, achtung:) This CMX3600-style EDL export functionality is INCLUDED in Vegas 5, there is no separate download for the script or anything else- if you have V5, you are set."

If the person receiving the EDL can also work in a 24p timeline, such as certain Avids and FCP, can I do my cuts-only edit in the 24p mode? I shot with a Panasonic DVX100 set at 24p so the "Match Media Setting" button sets the project at "SMPTE Film Sync 23.976 IVTE." I think this is a different setting than "Drop" but does that make the EDL unusuable to a third-party editor? I can open my exported EDL file in WordPad and the FMC entry states "FCM: NON-DROP 24 FRAME."

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SonyEPM wrote on 5/14/2004, 6:32 AM

In the DVX100 24p source file case, I do not know if FCP or AVID can accept a 24p edl from Vegas and correctly recapture it. It should work assuming those other apps do everything right (FCP does everything perfectly as everyone who has not used it well knows <g>)

vitalforces wrote on 5/14/2004, 2:54 PM

OK thanks, and I omitted in the rush of investigating, to thank you for the step-by-step instructions on exporting an EDL to a CMX3600 type file, in an earlier post. Your help is much appreciated. I printed out the steps and will keep the list next to my computer.

P.S. My DP bought a Mac and edits a little with FCP. He mentioned matter-of-factly that one has to expect, of course, a crash every now and then. The extreme sympathy I showed him must have been annoying...