Chapter 6 • Managing The Edit Decision
List
The Edit Decision List (EDL) is the collection of events you create with Edit Suite. Chapter 5 provides
descriptions and instructions for creating each type of event used with Edit Suite. This chapter describes
functions and key combinations that will help you manage the EDL. Included are procedures for–
• Moving up and down through the EDL
• Moving events from one location to another
• Creating copies of events
• Deleting some or all events
• Renumbering all events
To gain a working understanding of the procedures in this chapter, we suggest that you create a small
EDL similar to the one shown below, then practice each procedure as you read through the chapter. This
will make it easier for you to recall the procedures and key sequences when you need to use them for
your own productions.
Moving Up and Down Through the EDL
In Step 10 of the Getting Started you created the first two events in your EDL. With only two events, it
was easy to move from one event to the next by pressing the up and down arrow keys.
But a full EDL can contain up to 250 events. How can you move quickly to the top or bottom of the
EDL? Or from one Scene or Source Event to the next? Or from one Stop Event to the next? This section
describes the key combinations to do all of these, as well as providing a procedure to display a specific
event.
To move to the top or bottom of the EDL–
From anywhere in the EDL,
press [GO TO]+[up arrow] ...
or press [GO TO]+[down arrow].
