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KazuTa
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November 5, 2025
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improve EDL tool

  • November 5, 2025
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Please provide a more professional EDL tool.

 

For a docuseries I'm working on, I had to export an EDL to our archival producer of all the archival used in one of our episodes. I had to export six EDLs since I was only able to simplify the sequence to four tracks of video and six of audio. The EDL tool in Premiere (24.6.8 Build 3) can only export one video track and four audio tracks at a time, and CMX 3600 is limited to 999 events (I didn't want to send an incomplete EDL and have the arc producer report an inaccurate cost estimate for the episode). My arc producer requested one unified EDL so I had to use en.editingtools.io and their EDL Converter to merge the EDLs into one EDL. We tried things like exporting an FCP XML or an AAF and bringing them into Resolve, but some of the Source TC ended up as much as 40 seconds off.

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BT_digitalgarden
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November 11, 2025

OMG this 100%!!!! Dealing with that now with an editor having multiple nests in a nest. Having to dig too much to get to the clip for metadata

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KazuTaAuthor
Inspiring
November 11, 2025

It'd be a bonus (not required but helpful) if:
- disabled clips didn't show up in the EDL (I don't know why anyone would want disabled clips to show up in the EDL)
- nests showed up as their component parts rather than as "Nested sequence 10". A lot of editors put multiple archival within a nest; the archival producer needs to know which archival clips are in the nest. As an Assistant Editor, I will go into the nest, overcut what's in the nest into the EDL sequence, then delete the nest, but can't computers help us with this? They're better at this kind of thing than humans are.

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    BT_digitalgarden
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    November 10, 2025

    I 2nd this! Having an EDL tool like Avid's is crucial for documentary work as Archival Producers are constantly asking me for specific metadata in logs and having to creat EDL preps after every cut gets tidious when needing to filter these things out for them. Helps the Archival team get clearance, hunt down rogue archival/stock clips an editor may have brought in on their own accord, and archival BUDGETING! 

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