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<TITLE>Babylon 5 Edit Decision List Description</TITLE>
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<H1 align="center"><I>Babylon 5</I> Edit Decision List Description</H1>
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In the world of professional video editing, decisions have to be made as to
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what will end up in the final result. Editing a television program like
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<I>Babylon 5</I> is a very complicated process. A process that is beyond the
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scope of this page. Editing can be done off-line or on-line, where off-line
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editing will not produce the final product. While it may produce a video tape,
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the tape will only be a rough cut and may not include any special effects, not
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even fades. On-line editing will produce the final product. On-line editing
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can be done manually or automatically. The automatically is what requires an
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EDL. An EDL is used for manually editing as well and an EDL is the normal
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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
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position those elements will take in the final result. Those elements will
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also be described in some fashion, so that the editor will know what the piece
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is (this is production house dependent). But, the important part is that the
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EDL will contain a list of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television
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Engineers) time codes. Those time codes exactly describe the position of the
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elements within the final result. The EDL for a program like B5 is very
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complicated.
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Then we get into the EDL for putting together the hour that makes up the tape
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used to broadcast <I>Babylon 5</I>. This EDL is what makes up the program
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segments and the commercial breaks. What I am providing here is a reverse
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engineered EDL, i.e., I take the actual satellite fed tape and work backworks,
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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
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fairly accurate, since I use professional Umatic-SP decks equipped with
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SMPTE-LTC time code. Don't even think about trying to do an EDL from consumer
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VHS video decks, unless you have an external SMPTE-VITC time code
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generator/reader. The EDLs provided allow you to determine when the commercial
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breaks will arrive and how long they will be. Many of you hit the pause
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control when recording B5 from your local TV station. I tape the Warner
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Brothers satellite feed the Sunday morning before the stations are allowed to
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air the episode (starting the following day, Monday).
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<A HREF="mailto:brown@vidiot.com">brown@vidiot.com</A><BR>
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Last modified on October 22, 1995
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