Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1482)

Chapter 10 Importing and Exporting EDLs 131
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Reviewing an EDL
After you’ve exported an EDL, you should open the text file to compare it to your
original sequence. You can open most EDL formats directly in a text editing application.
Important: It’s best to avoid making changes to the contents of an EDL file. If you do
make changes to the EDL, make sure you don’t change the formatting (such as
accidentally adding or deleting whitespace characters like space, tab, or return
characters); otherwise, the resulting EDL may not be interpreted properly. Also, make
sure you always save the file in a plain-text format (.txt), not Rich-Text Format (.rtf ).
You can open an EDL in Final Cut Pro to review it. This is different from importing an
EDL, which actually translates the EDL into a new sequence.
To open an Edit Decision List:
1 Choose File > Open.
2 Locate the EDL file, select it, then click Open.
Using EDL Access for RT-11 Disks
Many older linear editing systems (such as CMX and GVG) store EDLs on 720K double-
density floppy disks that are formatted with a file system known as RT-11
1 . If you are
transferring your EDL to one of these editing systems, you need to transfer your EDL file
to this kind of floppy disk.
EDL Access ™ is an application that you can use to format, read, and write to RT-11
formatted disks. EDL Access is included on the Final Cut Pro installer disc. You can use
EDL Access to copy an EDL file to or from an RT-11 formatted disk using a third-party
USB floppy disk drive.
Note: Editing systems manufactured by Sony Corporation use the DOS file format. For
these editing systems, you can copy the EDL file directly to a DOS-formatted disk.
1. “RT-11” is an abbreviation for Real Time for the PDF-11, which was the computer used for many early video editing
systems.