Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1473)

122 Part II Project Interchange
Edit (or Transition) Type
An EDL can represent several kinds of video edits, or transitions. A cut requires a single
source, while all other types of edits require two sources, and thus two lines in an EDL.
 C: Cut. This is the simplest kind of edit.
 D: Dissolve. This transition begins with one source and dissolves to a second source.
 W: A wipe. This is followed by a wipe code that indicates the type of standard wipe.
 K: A key edit. Clips on Video track 2 can be used as the foreground (fill) layer in a
standard video key.
A dissolve from a Final Cut Pro sequence is shown below in EDL format.
001 002 V C 02:10:42:13 02:11:16:18 01:00:00:00 01:00:34:05
001 002 V D 024 02:18:32:07 02:18:56:19 01:00:34:05 01:00:58:17
Transition Duration
The duration of a transition (in frames) follows the transition type. For example, D 024
indicates a 24-frame dissolve.
Source In and Out, Record In and Out
In each line of an EDL, the first pair of timecode numbers are the source In and Out
points. The second pair are the record In and Out points, which correspond to the clip’s
location in the Timeline.
Edits that use transitions such as dissolves or wipes require two lines. The first line
represents the source before the transition, and the second line is the source after
the transition.