Open EDL Crashes V6.0c

farss wrote on 12/8/2005, 2:26 AM

Don't think I've had Vegas crash for a very long time but this sure does it. Crashes with a nasty divide by zero error. I can easily enough write some VB code to massage this into a Vegas project file but still how can reading a text file make things go so badly wrong, at least a gracious "Don't understand a word of this gibberish, aborted" kind of message would do. Here's a sample of the first few lines of the EDL:

ARAKWAL
GVG SUPER EDIT V4.X - V7.X FROM ADOBE PREMIERE V6.0
SMPTE FRAME CODE

0001 UND001 V C 00:00:00:00 00:00:06:00 00:00:00:00 00:00:06:00
* REEL UND001 IS CLIP IMG_0097 ARAK HEATH AND LIGHTHO
0002 UND077 V C 00:00:00:00 00:00:04:18 00:00:06:00 00:00:10:18
* REEL UND077 IS CLIP TALLOW TO LIGHTHOUSE.JPG
0003 UND002 V C 00:00:00:00 00:00:04:24 00:00:10:18 00:00:15:17
* REEL UND002 IS CLIP IMG_0102 ARAK LIGHTHOUSE.JPG
0004 UND078 V C 00:00:00:00 00:00:06:00 00:00:15:17 00:00:21:17
* REEL UND078 IS CLIP IMG_0103 ARAK SEA.JPG

Comments

farss wrote on 12/8/2005, 2:30 AM

As you may notice one big downer even if the EDL did open is the folder locations are not specified and this project is a very large number of stills which were organised into folders, oh the joy of it all.

Anyone know of a way to export a Premiere Project that Vegas can open thet preserves the source location?

Bob.

filmy wrote on 12/8/2005, 9:39 AM

>>>Anyone know of a way to export a Premiere Project that Vegas can open thet preserves the source location?<<<

Didn't we have a long talk about this already? Bob - more EDL testing

farss wrote on 12/8/2005, 12:52 PM

Yes. How quickly one forgets, there's been a lot of tape over the heads since then.
I guess fortunately in my specific case as there's no tape involved then the source TC problem isn't an issue, all media is stills, 1,200 of them.
Looking at the CMX EDL though there's immediately two problems, the file folders are absent and the file names have been truncated. The source files are split over something like 30 folders so this should be a bit of fun, my VB code is going to have to search for the files and even that could be problematic as they may not be unique, oh what fun.
The bit that spun me out though was having Vegas crash, yish.
Bob.

ForumAdmin wrote on 12/8/2005, 3:01 PM

You could open that old EDL in a modern version of Premiere (hopefully it eats its own dogfood), export as AAF, and then open that AAF in Vegas (6.0x).

farss wrote on 12/8/2005, 4:33 PM

Thanks,
yes that would certainly be a better path to go down but unfortunately I don't think I can justify buying a copy of PPro just for this job. Also the old EDL hasn't preserved all the data, file names have been truncated to fit the CMX EDL specs.
Only way around it all would be to open the old project in the new PPro and export that as AAF.
Bob.