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Avid® EDL Manager User’s Guide a © 2000–2001 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid EDL Manager User’s Guide • Part 0130-04807-01 Rev. A • March 2001 2 Contents Chapter 1 Working with EDLs EDLs and the EDL Manager . 10 Online and Offline Editing . 10 What the EDL Manager Does. 10 Starting EDL Manager . 11 Using Help . 12 Creating or Reading an EDL . 12 Creating an EDL from a Sequence in a Bin, Existing EDL, or OMFI File (Windows) . 13 Creating an EDL from a Sequence in a Bin, Existing EDL, or OMFI File (Macintosh) . 15 Reading an Existing EDL from the RT-11 Disk . 17 Saving an EDL . 19 Saving an EDL as a Text File or an OMFI Composition . 19 Saving an EDL to an RT-11 Disk . 20 Verifying an RT-11 Save. 22 Formatting an RT-11 Disk. 22 Printing an EDL . 23 Copying an EDL Between Storage Locations . 23 Using EDL Manager with Your Avid Editing System . 25 Creating an EDL from the Active Sequence. 25 Creating a Sequence from an EDL. 26 Viewing a List of Tapes in the Source Table. 27 Printing a List of Tapes in the Source Table. 28 3 Chapter 2 Customizing EDLs EDL Manager Option Settings. 29 Changing Settings in the EDL Manager Window . 30 Changing the Title of an EDL . 31 Defining Video Tracks and Audio Channels . 32 Including or Excluding Specific Tracks . 33 Redefining a Track . 33 Combining or Isolating Tracks . 35 Creating Stereo Channels. 35 Choosing a Format for the Audio Channels . 36 Displaying Different Views of an EDL . 36 Selecting a Template for the EDL. 37 File Names in the Template Pop-up Menu . 37 Opening a Template . 38 Adjusting the Source and Output Timecodes . 38 Finding the Field Where an Edit Occurred . 40 Updating an EDL with EDL Manager Window Changes . 41 Changing Settings in the Options Window. 42 Selecting an Edit Controller Format . 44 Selecting an Edit Controller Format . 44 Sorting the Order of Events . 46 Setting Up a Master List . 48 Setting Up a Dupe List . 50 Using the Preread Option . 52 Showing or Hiding Comments and Other Information. 53 The Effects Info Comment . 54 The Repair Notes Comment . 55 Optimizing the EDL. 56 Setting Up Standards. 57 Setting the Record Start Time . 58 Setting the Pulldown Start Frame . 59 Setting the Tapename Truncation . 59 Saving Options to a Template File . 61 4 Changing Options in the Site Settings Dialog Box . 61 Changing Serial Transmission Options. 62 Changing Font Options . 62 Chapter 3 Editing and Troubleshooting EDLs Using a Text Editor to Edit an EDL. 63 Fitting the Format to the EDL Manager . 64 Changing the Header Format. 65 Removing Problems Caused by Complex Sequences . 65 Using the Console Window to Display Messages. 66 Fixing Difficult Transitions . 68 Locating Trouble Spots . 68 Slicing and Dicing . 68 Trying One Track at a Time . 69 Avoiding Problems in EDLs. 69 Simplifying Effects . 69 Looking for Missing Information . 70 Dealing with Corruptions. 70 Appendix A Check List for Online Editing Calling Ahead to the Online Suite . 72 Deciding What to Take to the Online Suite . 73 Take EDL Manager. 73 Take the EDL in Several Forms . 73 Take Reference Information . 74 Double-Checking the EDL File Names . 74 Appendix B Creating EDLs for Film Projects Matchback Conversion in Film-to-Video EDLs . 75 Creating EDLs for a Matchbacked Sequence . 76 Creating Audio-Only EDLs . 77 5 Appendix C Using Serial Transmission to Transfer EDLs Connecting the Edit Controller to the Computer . 78 Setting Serial Transmission Options. 79 Transmitting the EDL . 81 Glossary Index 6 Figures Figure 2-1 EDL Manager Window . 31 Figure 2-2 Options Window . 43 7 Tables Table 2-1 Source and Output Timecodes. 40 Table 2-2 Timecode Format . 41 Table 2-3 Formats and Audio Channels . 45 Table 2-4 EDL Sort Modes . 47 Table 2-5 Master List Options . 48 Table 2-6 Dupe List Options . 51 Table 2-7 Show Options . 53 Table 2-8 Optimization Options . 56 Table 2-9 Standards Options . 57 Table 2-10 Tapename Truncation Options . 60 Table C-1 Serial Transfer Options . 80 8 CHAPTER 1 Working with EDLs This chapter introduces edit decision lists (EDLs) and provides instructions for basic EDL Manager procedures. It includes the following sections: • EDLs and the EDL Manager • Starting EDL Manager • Using Help • Creating or Reading an EDL • Saving an EDL • Formatting an RT-11 Disk • Printing an EDL • Copying an EDL Between Storage Locations • Using EDL Manager with Your Avid Editing System • Viewing a List of Tapes in the Source Table 9 EDLs and the EDL Manager An edit decision list (EDL) is a list of instructions for all the edits you make for creating a program on videotape. This list might include cuts, wipes, dissolves, fades, and black edits. The EDL Manager application organizes the instructions as a series of chronological edits called events. Each event specifies a timecode for the source and master tapes. Online and Offline Editing In most cases, you generate an EDL to take a project from the offline editing environment, where rough editing and experimentation are less expensive, into the online editing environment, where an editor using an edit controller can produce a finished master in less time. The EDL Manager saves EDLs in a format an editing system can use, such as GVC or CMX. You might also need to import an EDL from the online environment back into the offline suite to make further changes before completing the master tape. Traditionally, the offline environment consisted of a simplified videotape suite with less expensive machines and fewer effects capabilities. More recently, offline environments are likely to include nonlinear editing systems such as Avid’s Media Composer®. The online environment might also include a high-end nonlinear editing system such as Avid’s Symphony™, or an online model of Media Composer. In all cases, the EDL, in the form of a file generated in a readable format, is the link back and forth between the two environments. What the EDL Manager Does You can use EDL Manager to generate an EDL from a sequence in a bin or from an OMFI file. OMFI is a file format for importing and exporting media; it allows you to share information with other platforms. You can also read a previously saved EDL into EDL 10 Manager. After creating an EDL, you can save it as a text file that can.

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