Hand raised over here

vitalforce wrote on 4/19/2004, 2:39 PM
Um--Okay, I guess I assumed too much, but in the list of new features on the site page Technical Specifications>Vegas 5 Software, one of the items listed is "EDL Export." I immediately ordered the special-offer upgrade. Then (too bad for me) I downloaded the manual and searched for some mention of EDL exporting, and from what I read there is absolutely no change from version 4. All the EDL function does is create a text file formatted as a simple table. Can someone explain why this software couldn't be made capable of exporting an AVID-readable or even a Premiere-readable EDL? In other words--this is not an "export" function, it's merely a table created inside the program. (I would have bought the upgrade anyway, but I'm disappointed that I can't have a common editing language between my Vegas rough cut of a feature DV film, and an Avid editor who offered to do the finishing work.)

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filmy wrote on 4/19/2004, 2:49 PM
I did not really see the EDL market 'grow' beyond me until Sony took over...now I see more questions about why it is lacking. But I am not the person who decides about what to add or not add...my educated guess is that there simply is not enough of a market to add full EDL support now. And based on various comments over the last year or so some people's logic is they (sony) doesn't need to add it because "no one uses edl's anymore" (I still beg to differ on that) and "other NLES have dropped it" (Adobe left it out of Premiere Pro 1 for example).

if we were still little kids all our parents would be saying "Yeah well if they all jumped off a bridge would you do it to?" ;)
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/19/2004, 3:47 PM
Just an FYI, you can't open a Premiere EDL in Vegas. I tried, it's a no go.

And yeah, i'd jump off the bridge. I'm just be smart enough to grab hold after the other suckers jumped. :)
filmy wrote on 4/19/2004, 5:55 PM
You can't open a premiere project/native EDL no but you can export it into CMX format and it will imprt - however we are back to all the issues that really limit doing this - all media must be on the hard drive, in the same folder, as the EDL and project file. Only one track of video and one track of audio. Cuts only. And so on. Vegas 5 included the export EDL script - and at first I got very exited at seeing it thinking they had done something nice. But I think all the did was change the Sonic Foundry to the Sony namespace so the script would work.

There are two little utilities that were developed for getting Vegas project onto a REX system...and another for getting a REX project over to Premiere. Thing is they cost money and they don't work in DEMO mode, and I am not going to pay to get somehting that may not work. But I fgure is someone came up with these in 2002 why can't someone come up with something better in 2004? (Satish? Edward? nudge nudge)