Thanks for your response.
Regarding your question, the clients I service THAT DO shoot using HDSLR are largely satisfied with what I am able to deliver within the confines of MC -- in spite of the fact that those toolsets are long-in-the-tooth -- if not downright obsolete.
So, in short, those projects really don't require any type of EDL implementation -- as they never leave the box. My interest is to simply learn and apply a "best practices" approach to anything I do -- especially if it improves media management for 'boomerang' projects that unexpectedly return for revision.
I had thought [mistakenly?] you were saying that MC COULD NOT distill tape name, reel name, source id or camera id that had been embedded into a QT file by QtChange. And if that assumption was true -- it seemed the value proposition of using QtChange with MC was theoretically limited to TC -- which is still a very good thing.
But if those assumptions were true, and if timeline-based dupe detection was not much of a concern -- it seemed the original HDSLR file name (which is converted to an Avid Master Clip name) -- or a batch-renamed HDSLR file name (using Rname or an equivalent) was probably sufficient for smaller scale projects -- some of which are limited to a single camera and a single shoot day.
I could be mistaken, but in your last post you seem to be implying that source ID or camroll or tape ID are somehow related to TC. Which is a bit confusing as I thought you had said that, aside from TC, embedded QT meta data could not be decoded by MC.
I suppose I should really just start playing around with QtChange -- but I was hoping to learn how others were using it to their advantage with HDSLR footage.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
>
> > blafarm wrote:
> > And if timeline dupe detection, for whatever reason,
> > was largely not necessary -- than the original DSLR
> > file name would probably offer equal utility in
> > terms of EDL creation.
>
> No, because without adding TC in some manner, all clips will be imported or AMA'ed with TC starting at 00:00:00:00 and no source ID or camroll or tape ID. An EDL is pretty useless at this point. I guess the filename would be in the comments, but only if you didn't rename it during editing.
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> But, rather than discussing hypotheticals... What is it that you are trying to do? In other words, what are you trying to achieve with the EDL?
>
> - Oliver
>
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