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Chapter 10
Working With External EDLs and ALE Files
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In the Cinema Tools Film Lists dialog, choose your settings and click OK. See
Chapter 8, “
Generating Film Lists and Change Lists
,” on page 137 for details on the
settings in this dialog.
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If you chose to have a Cinema Tools program file created in the Film Lists dialog,
choose a location and name for the file, then click OK.
7
Select the Cinema Tools database to use for the list export, then click Choose.
The film list is generated and displayed (if you selected the “Open in text editor” option
in the Film Lists dialog).
What Actually Happens to the EDL
Once you start the film list export, Cinema Tools first processes the EDL file and creates
a version for its own internal use. During this processing, Cinema Tools looks for errors
that would make the EDL unsuitable to create a film list. If it encounters nonstandard or
unexpected text, the export is halted and an error message appears listing the line
number where the processing failed. This is referred to as a parsing error.
Problems in an EDL can often be repaired by manually editing its contents. Since EDLs
are actually plain text files, they can be opened in TextEdit. Be careful: often the line
number listed may not be the actual problem; the real issue may be with the line
before. Experiment with deleting lines and comparing them to similar ones that occur
previously in the EDL to help determine the problem. See “
,” next, for more information.
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