Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1626)

Chapter 10 Importing and Exporting EDLs 143
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How Clips from an EDL Are Named
Clips imported from an EDL are named in one of two ways. If the EDL was exported
from a nonlinear system, the name is exported like this:
* FROM CLIP NAME: CLIP NAME HERE
where CLIP NAME HERE is the name of your clip. Final Cut Pro can recognize clip names
exported from the following nonlinear editing systems: Final Cut Pro, Media 100, and Avid.
Important: Avid EDLs that use 24 audio tracks are not supported.
In all other cases, Final Cut Pro uses the reel name as the clip name. Dissolves and
wipes are mapped to the appropriate transitions following the basic SMPTE set. Key
edits are imported as well.
Final Cut Pro places markers in the imported sequence where errors occur.
Master Clips Created from EDLs
When an EDL is imported, a new bin is created in the Browser named Master Clips for
[Sequence Name]. This bin contains master clips corresponding to each piece of media
used by the sequence created from the EDL. Therefore, all the clips in the sequence are
affiliate clips, not independent. For more information about master, affiliate, and
independent clips, see Chapter 4, “
Working with Master and Affiliate Clips ,” on page 43.
Recapturing Clips from an Imported EDL
Unless you already have the corresponding media files on your hard disk, the offline
clips in the new sequence must be recaptured. To do this, you select the sequence or
the master clips and then batch capture. For more information, see Volume I,
Chapter 17, “Capturing Your Footage to Disk.”
Note: You need all the original source tapes associated with the EDL before starting the
capture process.
Clips from your imported
EDL remain offline until
you recapture them.