Back by popular demand, the legendary Edit Lister and Edit Tracker edit list management programs are once again available!

MS-DOS programs in a Windows world? In a word, yep! They still work, and they’re still lifesavers when the need arises. Even in an editing environment dominated by nonlinear systems, the EDL is the common “language” spoken by the majority of editing systems, and Edit Lister and Edit Tracker are the most powerful EDL management tools ever available.

See below for the history of Edit Lister and Edit Tracker.

 

Edit Lister is an edit list management and list cleaning application that works with EDLs in a variety of formats, including CMX, Grass Valley, Sony and Paltex formats.

Edit Tracker traces through multiple generations of edit lists where completed programs are used as sources during subsequent edits. While this is most common with tape-to-tape offline editing, it can also be encountered with nonlinear editing. Edit Tracker also provides list translation from one EDL format to another.
Edit Lister and Edit Tracker are bundled together as a package for complete EDL management, cleaning and tracing. Together they give you the toolkit you need to solve the kind of problems that tend to turn up on a Friday evening at 7:00 PM, when no other resources are available.

Here’s Edit Lister running in an MS-DOS window under Windows 98.

It can be run either in a window, or in full-screen mode, which is the recommended method.

In addition to all standard edit list management capabilities of off/on-line editing systems, Edit Lister offers sophisticated list cleaning and optimizing functions, and sorting for A, B and C-mode assembly. It can read and write a wide variety of EDL formats, including CMX, Grass Valley and Sony formats.

Click above to download the Edit Lister manual.

Edit Lister’s Features Include:

  • Re-edit with ripple
  • Add and delete edits
  • Include program effects such as wipes, dissolves, splits and keys
  • move single edits and block move entire scenes
  • Change reel number
  • Renumber a list
  • Search list for note or note fragments
  • Convert list to video or audio only
  • Change frame code modes (NTSC) or correct colour framing (PAL)
  • Convert drop frame to non-drop frame codes by reel number
  • Supports 4 audio channels
  • Auto-convert cuts to wipes or dissolves
  • Ripple source time codes
  • Force-convert audio channels
  • High-powered list cleaning
  • Optimizing for auto-assemble in A-, B- and C- modes, plus batch digitizing with NLE systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit Tracker is a simple-to-use yet powerful application that lets you view, trace and translate edit decision lists. It can trace through up to 15 generation of EDLs, generating a final EDL that incorporates all changes made along the way.

Edit Tracker reads and writes EDLs in CMX, Grass Valley, Sony and other list formats, and can both trace and translate lists from one format to another.


Edit Tracker’s Features Include:

  • Trace through up to 15 generations of edit lists
  • Automatically enter notes showing where edits originated (optional)
  • Translate EDL between formats
  • View EDLs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit Lister and Edit Tracker are designed to work together. Edit Lister lets you build, clean and/or manage edit lists, while Edit Tracker lets you trace multiple generations of lists.

Edit Lister/Edit Tracker Pricing & Purchase

Edit Lister and Edit Cutter are bundled together at a total price of $195.00. (They’re delivered as a zip file that we’ll email to you or provide a download link for, according to your internet connection requirements.)

If you need multiple seats, the second copy of the bundle is $95.00, and the third and additional copies are $45.00 each. (After purchasing your initial license, please contact us for additional seats at mcqpro.com

Edit Lister & Edit Tracker can be purchased through our secure order page at PayPal, which lets you use any major credit card or your existing PayPal account (if any). As soon as we receive notification of your payment, we’ll send you delivery information.

To place your order, just click the button below:

Edit Lister’s History

Edit Lister came about because I (Lon McQuillin) was spending too much money typing numbers into the keyboard of CMX editing systems following offline edits on my cuts-only editing system using window dubs. I'd build paper EDLs from the burned-in TC edits, and then type the numbers into the CMX system keyboard. I knew there had to be a better way, and started development of a personal computer-based “CMX emulator.”

Edit Lister was first released for the Apple ][ computer in 1984. The first version for the IBM PC appeared a year later, along with a Macintosh version. More than 5,000 registered copies were sold, and we estimate that at least as many bootleg copies circulated during the late ‘80s/early ‘90s.

Edit Lister eventually served as the foundation for the Edit Master A/B/C/D-roll online editing system, which saw more than 1,000 systems installed worldwide. All of these software programs were distributed by Comprehensive Video Supply, Inc., which went out of business in early 1996 (the name lives on, but it’s not the same company).

Edit Lister and Edit Tracker are by no means as critically important as they once were, but when it comes to transferring or otherwise manipulating EDLs in a nonlinear environment, either program can still be tremendously useful. Hence their renewed availability.

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