User Manual

5 Logging
When you import shot log files or log directly into a bin, you provide your Avid editing
application with frame-accurate clip information that it uses to capture the source footage. The
logs you create form the foundation for organizing, tracking, storing, retrieving, and generating
lists of edit information throughout your project. The following topics provide information for
preparing log information:
• Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files for Import
• Avid Log Specifications
• Creating an Avid Log
• Double-Checking Log Files
• Transferring Bins from MediaLog
• Logging Directly into a Bin
• Understanding the Pulldown Phase
• Setting the Pulldown Phase
• Film-Related Log Information
Using Avid Log Exchange to Prepare Log Files
for Import
Log files need to conform to the Avid Log Exchange (ALE) format to import into your Avid
editing application. You can use the ALE utility included with your system to convert shot log
files.
The ALE utility lets you:
• Modify the text in a log file (Windows only).
• Convert log files of different formats to ALE files. See “Log Formats Compatible with Avid
Log Exchange” on page 126.
• Convert an ALE file to either an ATN or FLX file.
Any options you set in the ALE utility are saved each time you close the ALE utility.