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Exporting the Edit Index
as a CSV or TXT File
You can export the current contents of the Edit Index, in the Edit page, as a self-contained file
to use for reference in a variety of ways.
To export the Edit Index:
1 Open the Edit Index, and choose one of the Edit Index filters from the Edit Index option
menu, if necessary. For example, you could filter the edit index by Offline Clips Only if
you wanted to export a list of all offline clips in the current timeline.
2 Right-click that timeline in the Media Pool, and choose Timelines > Export > Edit Index,
then choose a location and export format from the Export Edit Index dialog, and
clickSave.
Exporting to ALE
DaVinci Resolve is also capable of exporting ALE (Avid Log Exchange) files. ALE is a tab-
delimited, ASCII text-based clip logging list format that enables the exchange of clip metadata
that can’t be embedded inside MXF files. ALE files are designed to let you export a log of all
clips that are used in a particular timeline with all of the metadata that’s associated with those
clips in DaVinci Resolve, so this metadata can be imported into and associated with clips inside
Media Composer or Symphony.
ALE files are divided into three sections, labeled Heading, Column, and Data:
The Heading provides information about the clips being logged, including the picture
and audio format, and the frame rate.
The Column line defines each of the columns of metadata being exported in the list.
There’s an automatic minimum of metadata columns that are automatically included,
regardless of whether they’re populated or not. However, additional metadata columns
are automatically added to this list by DaVinci Resolve when any corresponding
metadata field in the Metadata Editor is populated. For example, if you enter information
into the Camera, Keyword, and Shot fields of the Metadata Editor, then those columns
will be added to the exported ALE. There are no user settings that control this.
The Data section contains multiple lines, one for each event being referenced in the
list, that contain all the data corresponding to that clip.
If you’re exporting stereoscopic clips from stereoscopic timelines, the following additional
columns of metadata are automatically included in the two ALE files that are generated:
Pan (relative to timeline resolution)
Tilt (relative to timeline resolution)
Zoom
Rotate
Convergence (relative to timeline resolution)
HFlip (0 or 1)
VFlip (0 or 1)
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