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

On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:26 PM, IAN WILSON wrote:
>
> We cut all our stuff online, what's this matchback? Have you looked at
> the RED workflow on AVID, you need to be a Rocket Scientist, as
> opposed to having a RedRocket card.

I've been teaching that today. While I've got a lot of respect for
Media Composer - particularly that no metadata is lost and it can all
be displayed - RED workflow with Media composer is difficult, unless
you're going to finish with DNxHD 175x to HD sizes (being Avid I
therefore mean 1080) using Symphony for finishing and color
correction. It's the workflows around matching back that suck! (Irony??)

If you want to match back via REDcine, the ALE has to originate from a
REDcine XML file. If you want to finish on DS then you have to start
with MetaFuze, but oh, that can't be on the same system as the DS
because there's a conflict. Oh, that also doesn't give you audio...

Balancing that is where you like to correct color, but if you want to
do your final finish from RAW (given you can't write to it) then FCP
does seem to have the more transparent workflow, by about a dozen
fewer steps.

But i do like the metadata retention. :)

Philip

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