Project Interchange Vegas: EDL Convert Pro v3 available

Harpo wrote on 4/29/2003, 6:05 AM
Hi guys,

this might be of interest for all Vegas users:

The new version of *** EDL Convert Pro *** is available!!!

What's new in ECP v3?

- OMFI support
- OpenTL support
- Cool Edit Pro 2.0 support
- SAWstudio support (limited)
- Full marker and PQ implementation
- Volume and panorama curve implementation for the most important formats
- Necessary audio file format conversions are automatically performed.
- Basic Audio Tool for further media data conversions including several
split- and merge options.

We do not mention prices in forums, but my guess is that most of you will be
suprised...
If you want to find out more: www.cuibono-soft.com/news/news.html

Thanks,
Harpo

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SonyEPM wrote on 4/29/2003, 9:49 AM
Harpo, more info please: Can you open a Vegas mixing session in Protools? Open a PT mix in Vegas? Any user stories you can point to? This is really interesting to lots of people here!

Harpo wrote on 4/30/2003, 7:02 AM
The gateway to ProTools is OMF. With EDL Convert Pro v3 you can convert a Vegas EDL to OMF (either referencing audio files externally or embed them). This OMF file can be converted to the ProTools format using the free OMF Tool or DigiTranslator (which is part of PT6 afaik).
The other direction also works via OMF. You open an OMF file in EDL Convert Pro v3, simply choose Vegas as the target format. In case the audio files should be embedded, they will be extracted during the conversion process. If they are referenced externally, you can choose a new project directory, where they are transfered to. Very simple.

We also have a demo available on our site. www.cuibono-soft.com

Thanks,

Harpo
Harpo wrote on 5/2/2003, 6:49 AM
Ok guys,

here's what one of our customers uses EDL Convert Pro for (his request actually started it all, so we are quite thankful - and so he is...)

"I work as a freelancer. This simply means I have to deal with different DAWs all the time. For my big band mixes the basic mix files are often done on a Sadie system. I bring my own SCSI disk and record 24bit wave files on the Sadie.
Critical edits I do during the mixing process, maybe some additional markers where I want to edit later, maybe some region gain adjustments where necessary.

Believe it or not: I love to edit in Vegas Video although I am to a 100% an audio guy.

So I take my Sadie edl file and convert it to Vegas with EDL Convert Pro. During the conversion I often change the fade shapes generally from the Sadie default linear type to the Vegas log type which sounds best for me.
As I said before, the complete editing including the master cd burning is done in Vegas.

In the broadcast station they want to have everything backed up to an exabyte drive after a project is finished, so I simply convert the whole playlist back again to the Sadie format, open the IC4 file in their Sadie and do my backup. Done!"