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Conforming to video changes

Conforming to video changes - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Conforming to video changes

No matter how hard you try to get a truly locked picture edit before the video editor transfers materials to you, some editorial changes will inevitably occur. Of course, these new picture edits will throw your audio session out of sync. When you have your full-blown Pro Tools session running, it's never fun to conform to a new picture edit. But with the right techniques, it could be a pretty simple and painless process. Let's see how it works. The real key to conforming your session to a new video edit is to have the best communication possible with the video editor. For everything to work right, you are going to need to know these crucial bits of information. You need to know the exact timecode locations of all edits that were made and the exact timecode durations of all edits. Both Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer can generate a document that shows this information. It's called an EDL and this is what an EDL looks like. It's a pretty complicated set of instructions containing all…

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