Sorry for the cross post I know this would of interest to both Avid lists.
This is a captured thread where some cheap producer hired some hack
editor and the so called editor screwed everything up. So now the
Producer has asked his DP to find someone to fix it...
I love the response below from a guy named Jesse.
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First of all-
1) Get your money back. Fire everyone who did the work so far. Editing
is not a DIY learn-as-you-go profession if you are charging money.
Severely revisit your choices you made when you hired these people.
This kind of compounded ignorance is just an embarrassment to everyone
else who makes a professional living doing things correctly.
2) Hire an experienced post-supervisor or editor to take over, someone
who has fixed this kind of problem before. It sounds as if you have
been blind sided by people who do not know what is going on, and this
often means that YOU might not really know all the problems you have
with your timeline. So, find someone, and pay them - to know the work
better than you, and be the guarantor of the final quality of the
film.
3) Go back to the sequence that was generated for the sound
designer/composer. You must decide upon a sequence that represents the
"best" visual representation of your film, and the one that you handed
off to your composer seems like the best one.
4) Render this "best timings" example and export a same-as-sequence QT
at 2997. This is your blueprint.
5) Copy-paste all the clips of your good sequence into a 2398
timeline, edit in the "Blueprint" qt on the top layer - make it 50%
opacity so you can see the template above and the timeline clips
below.
6) Fix it all by hand. There is no other solution. Shot by shot,
edit-by-edit. Reinstall all transition effects. This is hand-job
because EDLs and EDL translation programs simply cannot make all the
judgement calls necessary to fix your timeline. In 2997 timeline, your
clips end on frames numbered 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 - numbers that do
not exist in a 2398 timeline. Even a smart edl program will leave you
with timing errors, gaps.... these just need to be weeded out and
checked by a human.
I am sorry you have been screwed by so many ignorant folks - But
there's not much that can be done when people do fundamentally stupid
work like this, except to remind everyone that most people out there
in the post world are not really editors - they are hacks with
laptops.
Finding, hiring, and investing in relationships with real,
knowledgable Editors is the only way insure your work is not
sabotaged. Caveat Emptor!
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