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- In the world of professional video editing, decisions have to be made as to
- what will end up in the final result. Editing a television program like
- <I>Babylon 5</I> is a very complicated process. A process that is beyond the
- scope of this page. Editing can be done off-line or on-line, where off-line
- editing will not produce the final product. While it may produce a video tape,
- the tape will only be a rough cut and may not include any special effects, not
- even fades. On-line editing will produce the final product. On-line editing
- can be done manually or automatically. The automatically is what requires an
- EDL. An EDL is used for manually editing as well and an EDL is the normal
- result from an off-line edit.
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- The EDL is the list of all the elements that make up the final result, and the
- position those elements will take in the final result. Those elements will
- also be described in some fashion, so that the editor will know what the piece
- is (this is production house dependent). But, the important part is that the
- EDL will contain a list of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television
- Engineers) time codes. Those time codes exactly describe the position of the
- elements within the final result. The EDL for a program like B5 is very
- complicated.
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- Then we get into the EDL for putting together the hour that makes up the tape
- used to broadcast <I>Babylon 5</I>. This EDL is what makes up the program
- segments and the commercial breaks. What I am providing here is a reverse
- engineered EDL, i.e., I take the actual satellite fed tape and work backworks,
- making the EDL from the final result.
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- The times listed in the EDLs for the uplinked <I>Babylon 5</I> episodes are
- fairly accurate, since I use professional Umatic-SP decks equipped with
- SMPTE-LTC time code. Don't even think about trying to do an EDL from consumer
- VHS video decks, unless you have an external SMPTE-VITC time code
- generator/reader. The EDLs provided allow you to determine when the commercial
- breaks will arrive and how long they will be. Many of you hit the pause
- control when recording B5 from your local TV station. I tape the Warner
- Brothers satellite feed the Sunday morning before the stations are allowed to
- air the episode (starting the following day, Monday).
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