EDL Ease
Edit Decision List Converter for Excel and FileMaker Pro.
Version 6.0
Released: April 2020
Tested and runs on Intel and Silicon Apple Computers running OS 10.2 (Sonoma) through 26.4 (Tahoe)
NOTE: EDL Ease will not run under OSX 27 Golden Gate pending release in September 2026 - Please see Support section below for more information about the Future of EDL Ease.
Version 6.0
Released: April 2020
Tested and runs on Intel and Silicon Apple Computers running OS 10.2 (Sonoma) through 26.4 (Tahoe)
NOTE: EDL Ease will not run under OSX 27 Golden Gate pending release in September 2026 - Please see Support section below for more information about the Future of EDL Ease.
EDL Ease
Edit Decision List Converter for Excel and FileMaker Pro.
Version 6.0
Released: April 2020 Tested and runs on Apple Computer OS 10.2 through 14
Version 6.0
Released: April 2020 Tested and runs on Apple Computer OS 10.2 through 14
Created to assist Rights and Clearances Administration, Post Production and VFX in the reporting, tracking and delivery of Television Programs, Motion Pictures, Rights, Licensing, Clips, Stills and Music Cue Sheets…
Converts EDL assembly text…
To user friendly spreadsheet and adds the durations of Source and Program for each edit.
Drag and Drop Simplicity or traditional file chooser.
Drop one or all video layers V1, V2, V3 etc. and they are recombined and durations tallied.
It's so easy.. these are the only instructions you get.
It's so easy.. these are the only instructions you get.
8, 16 & 32 character EDL's.
Creates an Excel (.xlsx) document or Plain Excel UTF-16 text outputs for further processing to XML or CSV uses.
Creates an Excel (.xlsx) document or Plain Excel UTF-16 text outputs for further processing to XML or CSV uses.
Optional Field mapping extracts common content and clip identifiers from the comments and creates new field values.
Generates various Summaries of content durations for the following:
Source/Reels
✳︎ SOURCE FILE
✳︎ FROM CLIP NAME.
Source/Reels
✳︎ SOURCE FILE
✳︎ FROM CLIP NAME.
- Secure, non-disclosure of your edit data.
All EDLs processed on local machine. No uploading through third party websites. EDL Ease does not collect, share or do anything with your data. - Drag and Drop - Works out of the box!
- Simultaneous import (all video layers) and combine.
- Calculates Source and Program Durations
- Creates Clip and Content summaries of total durations from source
- Non-Destructive to original files
- Code Signed and Notarized by Apple.
- Elegant Results
- Free!
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Requirements:
- A Computer Running Mac OSX 10.12 or above.
- Tested on OS 10.2 Mojave through OS 26.4 Tahoe.
- Should work on 10.10 & 10.11 but is not guaranteed or tested on such.
- Use only text EDLs / CMX format for best results.
License and Disclaimer:
Freeware: You may use EDL Ease for personal or business use and install it on 2 computers in any one business, institution, or home. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or alter the software or this copyright notice nor sell, rent, distribute or modify this software.
No representations are made to the fitness or merchantability of this software and it is offered as is without warranty or indemnity. Use at your own risk. EDL Ease is not intended to conform, clean or otherwise convert the EDL in to other machine readable forms. Modern editing is technical, EDL Ease may not function with some workflows, your results may vary.
Support:
EDL Ease is code signed and Notarized by Apple. Allow apps from Identified Developers if prompted on first run.
The Future of EDL Ease - Apple Intel Software
Apple has announced that support for intel based software like EDL Ease will end with the release of OSX 27 Golden Gate coming in September 2026.
EDL Ease WILL NOT function under this new OS. OSX Tahoe will continue to run EDL Ease and most likely be supported by Apple through the end of 2027 and longer if you keep using this OS.
Regrettably, I have no plans to update EDL Ease to a silicon version nor pay the developer fees to meet the Apple requirements for public distribution of third party software as well as the costs of licensing the supporting plugins required as well. Although Apple has intentionally made what seems like more difficulty and costs to distribute free and open software it is essential all developers play in their sand box abiding by their rules to ensure the safety, veracity and trustworthiness of independently authored applications.
If an existing developer, well versed in Swift/Xcode wants to take this on, I would be happy to provide some of the developer knowledge to ensure it’s continued development.
I hope EDL Ease has helped you in the past. I’ll keep it posted as long as possible and wish you luck with all your productions.
Updating your OS
I am happy to report that EDL Ease is still compatible with current Apple operating systems. Apple OS updates often bring extensive internal security changes. If the program does not run after updating your OS, try these steps.
Delete the App and drag it back off the installer into the Applications Folder and always run it from that location.
Then in your security settings do the following to allow EDL Ease to run.
Make sure software from both the App Store and Identified Developers is checked.
In Security/Full Disk Access - Add EDL Ease
In Security/Files and Folders - Add EDL Ease
In Security/Developer tools add EDL Ease and allow to run locally bypassing Apple’s security policy.
If you are still having a problem, need help or would like to report a bug please do send me an email. If it does not function in your workflow I'd like to know and will include fixes or features for future updates.
Known Issues:
If you convert an EDL and some of the edit events are missing data in the exported file try generating an a Flat EDL. In AVID make sure Show Dissolves and Wipes as Cuts is turned on. In the case of Adobe Premier uncheck "Include Transitions" in the EDL settings. This generates a less complicated EDL and usually fixes this issue.
Not really an issue but should be noted: EDL Ease prefers source and clip names in your workflow to follow ISO and other common naming conventions. Spaces, underscores, dashes and periods are the preferred characters in a file name.
Other characters should be avoided when naming media files. These are reserved and mean different things to different operating systems and can interfere with parsing the data correctly.
/ \ " ' , * ; ? [ ] ( ) ~ ! $ { } <> = + # @ &
Example of compliant filenames:
video_file_33246-46353_v2.mov
video.file.33246.46353_v2.mov
video file 33246 46353 v2.mov
Example of non-compliant filenames:
video,file#3462.mov
scene56[A1-A2]_4473635.mov
scene56_&_52+4473635.mov
video/33243/4442.mov
EDL Ease may yield undesirable behaviors when converting EDLs that use non-compliant media names.
Donations Gladly Accepted:
I have received emails from users of EDL Ease asking if they can donate. That is an amazing gesture and I take that as confirmation this thing really works for a lot of people in a big way. If you use EDL Ease and it saved you hours or days of tedious work and feel compelled to donate; send whatever you think this is worth to fund future development. Or you can just pass on my website to professional productions that may need rights and clearances research and administration and of course EDL conversion.
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