Converting a Log File to an ALE File (Macintosh)
You can use the Avid Log Exchange (ALE) utility included with your system to quickly convert shot logs that are created during a film-to-tape transfer. You can then import the files directly into bins, as described in
Importing Shot Log Files.
To convert a file:
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Select Go > Applications, open the ALE folder, and double-click the
ALE icon.
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The Avid Log Exchange dialog box opens.
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Make selections for Input and Output. If you select Automatic in the
Input list, ALE detects the input file type.
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The default output selection is the Avid Log Exchange (.ALE) format.
This is the required format for import into an Avid bin.
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Select the tracks to include in the Tracks column of the log. After you
import the log into an Avid bin, the system captures all tracks shown in
this column when batch capturing.
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Select Clean if you want Avid Log Exchange to clean the ALE output
file to eliminate overlapping timecodes for clips. By default, Clean is
selected.
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When you select Clean, the utility removes the end timecode from any
clip that overlaps the start of the next clip.
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If you select Clean, you can also select Relaxed to prevent deleting
events that come earlier in the transfer. Relaxed is not set by default.
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For example, if you transfer film footage with a timecode of
2:00:00:00 and then add some clips at the end with a timecode of
1:00:00:00, Relaxed prevents the Clean function from deleting the
clips. This occurs when you shoot footage across the midnight hour
and the first half of the film has 24 hours and the second half has
0áhours.
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Click the Convert button to open the Select File to Convert dialog box.
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Open the drive and folder that contain the files you want to convert.
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Double-click the input file name.
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If you selected a file type, ALE converts the file immediately.
If you selected the Automatic option, a message box opens and asks
you to confirm the file type.
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Click the button for the selected file type.
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A message box opens.
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Do one of the following:
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Click the This File Only button to convert only the file you
selected to the format you selected.
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Click the All Files button to convert all the files you select in this
session to the format you selected. If you click the All Files button,
the message boxes do not open the next time you double-click a
file.
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Avid Log Exchange stores the converted file in the same folder as the
original input file.
The original file name extension is replaced by the extension for the
new format. The .ALE files can be imported only into Avid products.
