Vegas EDL generator.

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farss wrote on 3/27/2005, 2:34 PM
I think you've hit the nail on the head in the last paragraph. Today media can come from any source. Back in the days of linear editing everything had to original on tape hence using TC was the only way to fly. Today that's pretty much out the window. We hire a lot of gear to up and coming guys, half of them don't even know what it means to slate a shot much less do it.
But it's worse than that, it's now way too easy to record broken TC and if you take Sonys official line TC doesn't exist on DV tapes anyway.
Bob.
filmy wrote on 3/29/2005, 7:51 AM
Now this is even closer to what we are trying to do - Pro Import PPro

They have some other cool non-vegas use toys as well, such as Pro Import FCP which says You won't need EDLs anymore to get your edited sequences from Avid to FCP but also says: (Note: You can not import 24fps sequences from Avid systems, contact us with questions).

But still...close to what we have been discussing here.
FuTz wrote on 3/29/2005, 8:40 AM

Woooah... long post.
I'm bookmarking it, will print it and read it at bedtime...

A big thanks to you folks for all the input concerning this **hot** issue !
This post will become a reference point for the "greenie" I am in that particular area...

Cheers ! \Ü/
BabaG wrote on 3/29/2005, 9:50 AM
filmy,

do you know if any of the apps you mentioned which address the issue of
altering timecode actually rewrite the code vs. applying premiere (or other)
proprietary code? i have attila mezei's dvconversionsuite which does the
latter. the difference is that premiere allows writing of a start number into
the file header. since premiere doesn't actually read embedded code, it
calculates position based on either this user entered number or the actual
embedded start frame. after that it's all done by calculation. a rewrite of
the code would make the new code accessible to any app which could
read embedded code. if they just apply 'premiere timecode' it would only
be readable by premiere.

also, automatic duck has a free aaf plugin for fcp that i tried and couldn't get
to work. would want to be careful before plopping down the $500 for the 'pro'
plugin. otoh, they probably put more into the $500 item than the free.

cuibono is another company making edl/project conversion software which
seems similarly priced. the app i can think of off the top of my head is
edlconvertpro.

BabaG