Transitions, special effects, and superimposed clips in the EDL

Premiere includes many transitions, effects, and superimposition options that are not available in many online editing systems. A standard EDL recognizes only the cut, the dissolve, and some wipe transitions. The EDL modules available in Premiere attempt to translate the edits from your project to the standard EDL format in a single event. For example, the Cross Dissolve transition in Premiere is interpreted as a Dissolve transition by the standard EDL. Although many of the Premiere transitions cannot be adequately described in the EDL, the name of the Premiere transition is listed in a comment line in the EDL.

Premiere's effects and motion settings are completely ignored in a standard EDL. Superimposed clips are described as keys. The only transition permitted under a key is a Cut; other transitions under keys are removed from the EDL.

Many Premiere transitions correspond closely to wipe patterns that can be produced by a video switcher, a device that handles transitions in a conventional edit bay. Transitions that do not correspond to wipe patterns are interpreted as cross-dissolves. The following list describes Premiere transitions as they are interpreted by each standard EDL transition:

EDL Box Wipe Iris Cross, Iris Diamond, Iris Point, Iris Shapes, Iris Square, Iris Star, Multi-spin, Spiral Boxes, Swirl, Tumble Away, Zoom, Zoom Boxes, and Zoom Trails

EDL Circle Wipe Clock Wipe, Iris Round, and Peel Back

EDL Cross Dissolve Additive Dissolve, Channel Map, Cross Dissolve, Cross Stretch, Cross Zoom, Curtain, Displace, Dither Dissolve, Fold Up, Funnel, Image Mask, Luminance Map, Non-Additive Dissolve, Paint Splatter, Random Blocks, Random Invert, Slash Slide, Texturize, and Three-D

EDL Cross Split Wipe Center Merge, Center Peel, and Center Split

EDL Diagonal Wipe Page Peel, Page Turn, and Radial Wipe

EDL Horizontal Wipe Checkerboard, Random Wipe, Wedge Wipe, and Zig-Zag Blocks

EDL Horizontal Split Wipe Stretch Over and Venetian Blind

EDL Inset Inset transition

EDL Vertical Wipe Cube Spin, Pinwheel, Push, Roll Away, Slide, Sliding Boxes, Stretch, Swing In, Swing Out, and Wipe

EDL Vertical Split Wipe Band Slide, Band Wipe, Barn Doors, Doors, Sliding Bands, Spin, Spin Away, and Split

Video switchers interpret wipe patterns as codes. You can associate the wipe patterns in the EDL with the wipe pattern codes used by your postproduction facility by clicking Wipe Codes in the EDL Output dialog box (see Exporting an EDL). Consult with your postproduction facility to determine the wipe codes that are used by their switchers.

You may want to create an EDL from a simplified copy of your project, so that your postproduction facility can easily use the EDL. To simplify the project, remove clips from the Video 2 or higher tracks and use only supported transitions and effects.

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