User Manual

Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import
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After you import the log into an Avid bin, the system captures all tracks shown in this
column when you batch capture.
The Track selection only works on non ALE files that you convert to an ALE format. When
ALE is the incoming format, Track selection does not work.
5. Select the options Clean if you want ALE to clean the ALE output file to eliminate
overlapping timecodes for clips.
When you select Clean, the utility changes the end timecode of a previous event to be less
than that of the following event. Clean is the default.
6. When you select Clean, you can also select Options > Relaxed to prevent the deleting of
events that come earlier in the transfer. Relaxed is not set by default.
For example, if you transfer film footage with a timecode of 2:00:00:00 and then add clips at
the end with a timecode of 1:00:00:00, Relaxed prevents the deleting of events that come
earlier in the transfer. This occurs when you shoot footage across the midnight hour, the first
half of the film has 24 hours, and the second half has 0 hours.
7. Select the global settings information, for example, NTSC or PAL, that you want to appear
in the ALE file.
Global settings appear at the top of the .ale file.
8. Click the Convert button to open the Select File To Convert dialog box.
9. Open the drive and folder that contain the files you want to convert.
10. Double-click the input file name.
If you select a file type, ALE converts the file immediately.
If you select the Automatic option, a message box opens and asks you to confirm the file
type.
11. Click the button for the selected file type.
A message box opens.
12. Do one of the following:
t Click This File Only button to convert only the file you select to the format you select.
t Click All Files button to convert all files you select in this session to the format you
select. If you click All Files, the message boxes does not open the next time you open a
file.
ALE stores the converted file in the same folder as the original input file.
The system adds the replaces the original file name extension by the extension for the new
format. You can only import .ale files into Avid products.