Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Why isn't Avid marketing all over this story?

On Oct 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Knut A. Helgeland wrote:

> On 5. okt. 2009, at 23.08, Philip Hodgetts wrote:
>
>>> The documentation is wrong, DS can take RED files any way you want
>>> to:
>>> Directly; via EDL+ALE, AAF or AFE. Either way it will link up to the
>>> original RED directory, and offer you a nice window on how you want
>>> the files interpreted for your timeline.
>>
>> Even if you say started in REDrushes to get to MC for offline? Then
>> take that to DS?
>
>
> The DS is very forgiving when it comes to media, as it really only
> cares about two things: source name and timecode. So any way you can
> correctly bring in the tc and source (which in case of RED is the file
> name) will work fine.
>
> So if you'd choose to go into MC via REDrushes you would generate an
> ALE file at the same time, and import to MC using that. From there you
> can use AAF or AFE direct over to DS, and relink to the original
> files. 95% functional Avid "total conform" (sic) with native RED
> files.

That is the one workflow NOT covered in Avid's documentation.
>
> I believe the current documentation is an "updated" version of a paper
> originating from when DS could not do RED natively, and you had to
> link back into Redcine to make dpx files. Someone has updated the pdf
> in relation to native RED support in DS, and probably not realized
> other parts needed rewriting also.

That sounds feasible.

> The XML and Filmscribe stuff is
> irrelevant for DS finishing, and a properly formatted ALE file
> bypasses the requisite for using MetaFuze to convert the media.
> MetaFuze just helps you getting mxf files into your MC directly,
> instead of going through imports.

Cool. Thanks for the clarification. Not having a DS to test on, I was
reliant on Avid's documentation. Silly me!

Much appreciated to all who contributed in educating me.

Philip

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