EDL Import and Export Feature

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EDL (Edit decision list) is the most and ancient form of getting footage from 
and to other Editing Applications. EDL import and export feature is available 
in all the editing application incl cinelerra(import & export), Blender 
(import). It would be very helpful if this feature be included in Flowblade.
I could edit and deliver EDL for Autodesk Smoke or other Color grading apps 
users for Advanced Color Grading / VFX works. Please consider this request.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mohan...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2012 at 5:44

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Looked into this and it seems that there are many different EDL formats of 
which the most common is CMX3600.

I'm however unable to find specification for that format and can't work without 
one.

If someone needs EDL import/export in some other format, please open an issue 
with that format named in it and provide a specification for it, and we'll look 
into it.

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 7:15

• Changed state: NeedsSpecs
• Added labels: Priority-Low
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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There's an library for dealing with EDL. Maybe this may help you. And its based 
on CMX3600 Standard.

http://guerilla-di.org/edl/

Original comment by mohan...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 12:58

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And here how Blender imports EDL into its sequencer. I don't know on which 
standard it supports, but it successfully imported CMX3600 style EDL.

http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/import_edl.py

Original comment by mohan...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 1:22

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Okay, thank you.

These definitely make coding the feature feasible. I'm marking this accepted 
now, but keeping it on low priority.

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 7:55

• Changed state: Accepted

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Thank you for accepting this feature. It makes flowblade useful for serious 
editing projects.

Original comment by mohan...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2012 at 6:03

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There is a kdenlive xml to edl convertor. Maybe this may help you. 
https://github.com/barry-lyndon/KdenParse/blob/master/src/kdenparse.py

Original comment by mohan...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2013 at 5:41

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we are trying to think of a standard. your input would be much appreciated.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83111

cheers

Original comment by snd.no...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2014 at 7:26

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CMX3600 is quite universal, also RED (for longer names of files its nice) 

Original comment by mixe...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2014 at 10:46

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This is going WontFix. Spend some time on this and got it working some times on 
Blender, but other times it failed in ways that I could only explain as Blender 
EDL import being buggy.

Because I have no other export target available I'm closing this. I'm keeping 
the code and will re-examine this if I get another EDL export target working on 
my system. 

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 12 Mar 2015 at 11:01

• Changed state: WontFix

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I can help test the edl function in Davinci Resolve and Lightworks(Import 
function). I can also send some example edls for reference if that helps.

Generally the edl import function is a bit messy even in commercial apps.

Original comment by panz...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2015 at 5:15

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panzbox, thanks.

I'll give this another try on autumn after I've done the Gtk3 port and I'll 
mail you if you're still at that time available to do some testing.

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2015 at 7:11

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Might be a bit harder for me in autumn, but i will be glad to help!

Original comment by panz...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2015 at 9:53