Awesome, thanks for the detailed explanation Brendan. I'll give it a whirl, hopefully your workflow works in 5.0.3, it'll save me a ton of space (which I'm gonna need as we have a bunch of projects coming up on red).
Mike Cardeiro
Editor/Animator
D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA
215-483-4555
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> From: Brendan McCullough <brendan.mccullough@gmail.com>
>To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: workflow for offline red
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>I just finished my first AMA/RED workflow and I can say that adding a tape
>name didn't provide me with any advantage I could find. The biggest thing I
>forgot was not lowering the debayer setting to 1/4. That was *painful*.
>Knowing what I know now, my workflow is thus:
>
>
> 1. AMA *all* footage at once and place in a single bin, or in bins based
> on card/drive name (whatever AMA creates naturally) and transcode to DNxHD.
> *Set your debayer to 1/4 or lower first!*
> 2. Move the transcoded clips to other bins as you please. Leave the AMA
> master clips in their original bins.
> 3. Edit merrily.
> 4. When you're ready to online, take your DNxHD media offline (rename
> your media folder or take the workspace offline, *don't delete the media*),
> relink all your original AMA media files, select all the AMA master clips
> in their bin, then right-click on a *duplicate *of the sequence you
> wish to online, and select relink. In the relink dialog, select the option
> to relink to selected clips in bins rather than searching media drives.
>
>That should do it.
>
>Brendan McCullough
>video editing • post-production
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>On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:25 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been advised in the past to add a tape name to ama clips to
>> facilitate relinking later. Giving the ama'd clips the same name as the
>> bin they are in seems to work well for us in the few cases we've dealt with
>> ama. With Red is this still an advisable step? Are there any drawbacks to
>> this approach?
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > The ideal workflow is to mount the red files via AMA, then transcode for
>> offline. When done, relink to the original RAW files and render out to
>> whatever you want.
>> >
>> > In your case, what you want to do is export an EDL to RedCineX. Relink
>> to the RAW files. Then do an AAF output with media transcoded to whatever
>> Avid flavor you want. Dump those files into your Avid Mediafiles folder,
>> import the AAF, relink, and relink your sequence.
>> >
>> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, mike cardeiro <mcardeiro@> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > We have been doing more and more stuff on red.
>> > >
>> > > Whenever we get red footage I transcode all of it to hi rez dnx for
>> editing....but it obviously this takes up a lot of unnecessary space.
>> when we had our first red job I tried transcoding at offline resolution
>> building a sequence and uprezing with batch import, the problem is when I
>> try to batch import a seq of these transoced files, the avid is trying to
>> find the transcode file and not reimporting the original red file.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > am I missing something on this type of workflow? how can I build a
>> seq of transcoded red files then batch import those at a higher res? (I am
>> on mc 5.0.3)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Mike Cardeiro
>> > > Editor/Animator
>> > > D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA
>> > > 215-483-4555
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>> > > http://www.michaelcardeiro.com/resume/
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