Dear Avid-L
I'm sure some American clever clog here can solve a issue that's bogging
down bunch of reasonably smart European assistants.
On a feature that was started in the US, and arrived over to Europe, sans
Assistant. I've come across a audio issue.
On a European feature rushes would arrive from the lab, with or without
sound on the digi beta (depending on whether the production wanted sync
dailies ASAP, and were willing to pay the lab to synch rushes)
We then unlink the audio from the digi, load in the locationaudio from
the sound recordist ( on DVD-ROM or drive), and unlink everything but the
mix track.
Then the OMFs or AAFs for the sound department we would give the Sound
department easy access to the multitracks.
In this case this hasn't happened. The audio in the cut is from the digi
beta, and while the Sound Recordist's multitracks have been loaded they are
not linked to the media in the cut.
My editor assures that it is a simple matter for his assistant to give
embedded audio linking to the Bwavs from recordist's source that will
autocoform from the material in the cut, I cannot fathom for the life of me
how to do this.
I also cannot fathom why on earth if this is such a simple matter, why on
earth I (and about a half dozen of even smarter assistants than I) have
bothered our holes going on and synching hours of rushes every day, when we
could have have just done this in the first place.
It's 10pm on a Saturday night in western europe, and I'd love to have a
answer for this by Monday morning our time.
Aidan
PS for those of you about to ask "why don't you just generate audio EDLs?"
There's going to be a follow up e-mail on this topic-
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