Re: What happened to the APIs Apple was going to release in the next "few weeks"?

One of the actual tasks I use EDL's for is "pulling" shots. I cut two features shot on Arri D-21. The footage comes on a bunch of hard drives with hundreds of thousands DPX files on them. I like to call it "digital negative". I strike "digital workprint" from the footage — QT movies with timecode, a LUT and metadata burned in, log, sync and edit. When picture is locked I have to pass it to a colorist and to VFX. That means going back to DPX. That's where EDL's come handy. DPX contains timecode in the header and there is a Spotlight plugin that allows searching for timecode. Of course it would be much easier to have a small app that would import EDL, search all mounted volumes and copy only the frames used to a specified location but doing it manually isn't as bad as it sounds. In fact Pomfort was considering having this feature in the next Silverstack and even had working code but it didn't make it into a final release.