Use an EDL to reconstruct a work session created in an offline editing system or to import image sequences from a standard filesystem. Typically, when recreating a project from an interchange file such as an EDL (referred to as conforming an EDL), you import the file, capture the material or import the referenced files, and then assemble the captured or imported material into a clip on a destination library reel.
This chapter covers the import of standard EDLs and telecine log files. Other file interchange formats are covered as follows:
