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Article: Automatic Sequence Export Pro: plug-in streamlines workflow between Apple's Final Cut Pro and Avid video-editing programs. (Reviews).(Product/Service Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Until recently, video professionals who use Final Cut Pro have had only one way to export video sequences to high-end editing systems for Finishing: edit decision lists (EDLs). Automatic Duck's Automatic Sequence Export Pro (ASE Pro) plug-in for Final Cut Pro 3.0 circumvents EDLs altogether. Instead, ASE Pro exports Final Cut Pro sequences as Open Media Framework (OMF) files that you can import into a variety of Avid systems.
Going Beyond EDLs
EDLs are simple ASCII files that describe a narrow variety of edits, transitions, effects, and tracks. Depending on the type you use, EDLs limit you to two levels of video and either two or four tracks of video. ...