EDL Consolidator · timecode.tools

Mode Consolidate Merge Clips Source Offset

Append all events from multiple EDLs sequentially into one EDL, renumbered from 001.

// 01 · load edl files

Drop .edl files here — or click to browse

No limit on number of files · load order matters (V1 first, V2 next…)

Output EDL title

// 02 · options

Sort events within each EDL by record in-point
Events are typically already in order; enable only if your EDLs are unsorted Preserve comment lines
Keep *FROM CLIP NAME, *SOURCE FILE, and other * lines Add source EDL comment to each event group
Inserts *SOURCE EDL: filename.edl before each event group for traceability

// 03 · consolidate

// about edl consolidator

Consolidate mode

Appends all events from multiple CMX3600 EDLs sequentially into a single flat EDL. Events are renumbered from 001. All source timecodes, reel names, and clip metadata are preserved exactly. Load order matters — V1 first, V2 next.

Merge Clips mode

Groups events by reel name across all loaded EDLs and computes the union of source ranges for each reel — producing one event per reel covering the full frame extent used across all EDLs. Designed for producing conform/grade extractions from multi-pass editorial EDLs.

Reel name matching

Exact — character-for-character match including brackets and extensions.
Base name — strips bracket ranges [XXXXX-XXXXX] and file extensions before matching. Useful for DPX sequences where the same physical roll appears with different frame ranges across EDLs.
Prefix — matches on the first N characters only.

Frame tolerance

Source ranges within this many frames of each other at their boundary are treated as contiguous and merged without a gap flag. Handles the common case where the same physical take was trimmed slightly differently in two EDLs. Default 2 frames.