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Import an AAF, FCP7 XML, or any text-based EDL file. All edit lists can be appended by time, while EDL files can also be appended to add additional tracks. When a separate video EDL has been supplied for each vision layer, these can be flattened while importing them into the main window.

Use EdiLoad's powerful cleaning controls to remove duplicate events, combine events split over several tracks, and ripple events to generate a list with the least number of events and tracks.

EdiLoad reads 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 29.97DF, 30, 30DF, 47.952, 48, 50, 59.94, 59.94DF, 60, 60DF FPS timecodes.

The EdiLoad Assembly window can assemble all channels of your location WAV files to match the audio edits made by a picture editor. This is required by dialogue editors to access all channels or mics that were recorded on location.

Load the edit data from the picture edit either via an AAF, XML or EDL file. Clean this list so that the assembly window can match each event in the list to one or more location WAV files using the match criteria settings. The assembly window also contains settings to customise which channels are exported, by name or whether they contain any audio, and provides a way to fix sub-frame sync errors when picture edit systems have aligning WAV files on a frame edge that do not start on a frame edge.

Once all events are matched the assembly window can export a Pro Tools session file that links to mono or poly WAVs or an AAF file that links to mono WAVs, ready for dialogue editing.

See this blog post for a full demonstration of how the assembly window works.

The EdiLoad compare window finds the difference between two picture version edit lists, creating a change list that describes which sections of the old version have been retained and where they have been moved to. The compare algorithm used in EdiLoad is also used to power the Pyramix v6+ 'Detect Picture Change & Reconform' function.

Multiple AAF, FCP7 XML, or EDL files can be loaded at once and grouped by version or date for easy selection. During load, EdiLoad utilises its powerful VFX cleaning controls so that updated VFX shots are matched between picture versions. It also assigns a Roll Name to each list during load which is shown in the generated change list to identify which Pro Tools session an event relates to.

Several old version lists or groups of lists can be selected for compare, allowing EdiLoad to automatically fill holes in a trace with a previous picture version list.

All edit lists and settings for a project can be saved in a single EdiLoad project file.

The EdiLoad re-conform function re-positions the clips, automation and any other elements in a Pro Tools session as per the edit list loaded.

This function can be used to update a session to match a new picture version by loading a change list created by the compare window. Alternatively, it can be used to create a cut-down version of a project when, for example, a foreign version is created or trailer has been made. In this instance, when the long version pictures were used to create the cut-down version, the audio events of an AAF, FCP7 XML or EDL can be loaded into EdiLoad to re-cut the Pro Tools session. See this blog post for more information.

EdiLoad can import audio clip edit data from one or more audio tracks of a Pro Tools session. Initially this was written for clients that wanted to edit their own version of an old guide track and apply these edits to mix automation via an EDL. This feature can also be used to customise re-conforms by manually changing a guide track re-conform, or it can be used to import the edit data of a session when music tracks from an AV shoot are edited in Pro Tools and the picture edit needs to follow.

To speed up the process of editing backgrounds, atmospheres or crowds, generate a picture cut track in EdiLoad. A picture cut track is an audio track containing a clip group at every picture cut point named with the clip name in the source AAF, FCP7 XML, or EDL. EdiLoad exports this as a Pro Tools session file and provides the option to set the color of the clip groups by the text in each clip.

Loading one of these tracks into Pro Tools not only allows you to see or tab to each picture cut point, but shows dialog editors directly in the timeline which slate and take was used in the picture edit.

A scene change track is similar to a picture cut track, however, with a scene change track each clip shows where a scene starts and ends. Clip groups are named with the scene number, and when available, the scene description too.

As well as helping to identify locations in a project, a scene change track can streamline the process of editing atmospheres, simplify selecting a range while applying mix automation for the duration of a scene, or automatically assign scene numbers and descriptions to ADR cues when using EdiCue.

EdiLoad can export a scene change track as a Pro Tools session file or it can create a marker track containing cycle markers directly in Nuendo.

To update timecode values in a data file when picture changes occur, use the EdiLoad Update Data window to load and modify the timecode values to match the new picture version. Load a delimited text file or Excel file and configure what timecodes are updated, if a picture version field is set, and how the timecodes are modified for the cues that did not make it into the new picture cut.

The EdiLoad WAV File List window can be used to inspect the meta data of files, find duplicate files, export a Pro Tools PTX session file or an AAF containing all WAV files spotted to its timestamp, and export all data as an Excel file or text file.

The PTX or AAF file created by this window is handy for ADR editors who have been given either a folder of WAV files or a Pro Tools session where all takes are stored on different playlists, as it creates a timeline with all recordings placed on separate tracks spotted to their timestamp.

The Find Duplicates function is useful while assembling location WAV files to find unique files that have the same name.

In addition to exporting Picture Cut and Scene Change Tracks in a PTX file, EdiLoad can export the following files:

• EDL files with a standard CMX3600, File16, File32 or File129 format
• MIDI files to generate Pro Tools markers at picture or scene change points
• MIDI files to trigger visual cues (like streamers) in EdiPrompt at picture or scene change points to cue foley walkers
• Tab-delimited text files or Microsoft Excel files containing all edit list data
• Offset lists containing cumulative changes for manual picture updates