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An engineer's perspective on EDLs

on YouTube 14m
Talkat Demuxed 2018 · 2018-10-17..10-18· [data-visualization, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Megha Manohara
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/pMo1l1LpOOA
slides:none on file

summary

EDLs function as blueprints that map sources to timelines and Netflix wrestles with a proliferation of formats — CMX3600, FCP XML and AAF — plus tooling like Avid and Final Cut Pro. Production scales to roughly 30 localized trailers per title, so Netflix adapts a cloud parallel-rendering pipeline and evaluates chunking strategies: fixed chunking (every few hundred frames) and temporal-difference chunking. OpenTimelineIO appears as an interchange adaptor and cloud rendering promises improved security and scalable renders.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 1:45Trailer
  3. 3:02EDL = Edit Decision List
  4. 3:48EDLs are the blueprints
  5. 4:36NLE = Non Linear Editing Systems
  6. 7:37Scale & Security
  7. 11:35Temporal difference

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