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# Working in Avid

If you are editing in your Avid® application, you will need to export EDL sequences, since WiretapCentral does not support AAF.

Keep in mind that you will need to export one or more EDLs, so limit your edit to one video track. If you must edit using several tracks, you will have to make as many duplicates of your sequence as you have video tracks and remove any additional video from the duplicates. You will end up with several EDL files, one per video track.

NoteWhen editing in Avid Media Composer®, export an EDL using Avid EDL Manager and the RED16 template (available at www.avid.com/red). The tape name of each event then has the required 16 characters. Use the Python script provided with WiretapCentral to modify the Avid EDL and build a tape source table which works in WiretapCentral and in your Autodesk Visual Effects and Finishing software.

To export EDL files:

1. Edit your sequence in your Avid application.
2. Pare down your Avid sequence to make it more EDL-friendly.
3. Make as many duplicates of your sequence as you have tracks, and prepare video-only sequences, carefully naming each one.
4. Export each Avid sequence as a new EDL with the Avid EDL Manager using the following settings:
   - Set EDL type to RED16.
   - In the Options menu, set Reel ID Type to Cameraroll.
   - If Edgecode was used instead of TOD Timecode, set the Source TC option to Auxiliary TC 1.
   - Select the option that includes the source table with the saved EDL.
5. Repeat step 4 for each video track’s corresponding sequence.
6. Copy the source R3D files, the fixed EDL to a media folder on a SAN or NFS. Ensure that:
   - The media folder is accessible from both WiretapCentral and your Autodesk Visual Effects, Finishing, and Grading application.
   - You keep the same file/folder hierarchy where one folder contains all .RDM and .RDC folders and subfolders. It makes it easier to search for and match events to media when loading the EDL file.
   - You place the EDL in the top folder. This enables WiretapCentral to find automatically the underlying media during the import process.

#### Topics in this section

- Using the edl_adsk_tapename Script