Dialogue Editing

The Edit Decision List 61
but is instead a comment that can be used to name the region in your
session.
003 DVD09 AA C 13:38:11:02 13:38:12:23 02:00:24:06 02:00:26:02
* TO CLIP NAME: 24-07 OF 7 ANNOUNCED 6 JORDAN BORDER T131 MERGED
* COMMENT: 08-02-04
In this event, the text line
* TO CLIP NAME: 24-07 OF 7 ANNOUNCED 6 JORDAN BORDER T131 MERGED
identifi es the scene and take (and notes that the voice slate on the recording
was incorrectly identifi ed as take 6 instead of take 7). This is the line you’ll
import for the region name. More on that later. The next text line:
* COMMENT: 08-02-04
Table 5-1 Fields in a CMX3600 EDL Event Line
Column Field Description
1 003 Event number. A series number that makes it easier to refer
to specifi c edits.
2 DVD09 Source. The originating media—the source roll, in this case
a DVD made from a Cantar hard disk.
3 AA Record channels. The channels in the session on which the
sound was recorded (or edited), not the source channels.
4 C Transition type: cut (C), dissolve (D), wipe (W), key (K), etc.
5 13:38:11:02 Source start time. Where on the original fi eld recording, the
event begin.
6 13:38:12:23 Source end time. Where on the original fi eld recording the
event ends.
7 02:00:24:06 Record start time. Beginning of the event in the edited
program.
8 02:00:26:02 Record end time. End of the event in the edited program.
is included by the picture editor to aid in fi le matching from the original
Cantar BWF fi les. Cantar, like most hard-disk recorders, includes all of the
takes from one shooting day in a folder whose name is the date of the recording.
This information won’t be imported into the postconform, since it’s of no
interest to you once you’re editing and because you can import only one text
line per event.
For the most part, that’s it. There are, however, a few quirks worth looking
at. For example, the EDL event below includes a fade from black.