Altering multiclip timecode and referencing them for an EDL?

[zacnicholson]

Have a specific question regarding working with EDLs.

The setup was three cameras shoot for a musical performance with a slate at the top of the rolls (NO TC jam). Everything was recorded in three takes. I had asked for a cue sheet and was anticipating minor edits where I could just pull from a multiclip timeline, but the performer went overboard and there are many, MANY edits that would make that a major undertaking.  I have the EDL so my quesiton is is there any way in Premiere to alter the timecode of a multiclip and then alter the text in an EDL so that it can reference the multiclip as the source file? Any thoughts on this would be super helpful before I go back to the client with bad news on the budget! 

[Mike Dziennik]

If you have an EDL you can replace the clips it imports with a multiclip...but only one at a time as far as I can tell.

you can relink an EDL to a media file which would replace all the clips, but obviously you don't have a mediafile for a multiclip you have synced inside Premiere.

Once you have imported your EDL, select the first clip and then ALT+SHIFT+DRAG the multiclip from the bin on top of it and it will replace it in the sequence, keeping the sequence timecodes intact.

If you need to adjust the starting timecope of your multiclip in order to make this work correctly, right-click on your multiclip in the project panel and choose 'Open in Timeline'. Then go to the 3-line menu button next to the sequence tab at the top of the sequence panel, then choose 'Start Time...'