I'm starting up a project, well picking up a project that had been started and I've since added new media via ama transcoding. When I received the project one interview had already been transcoded to DNX220. Judging by the video format of CANON XF MPEG-2 50Mbits (1080p/29.97) I assume the footage came from a Canon 5D or 7D. No reel numbers were added to the already transcoded interview clips so I followed their lead and when I added the extra raw material they gave me I just linked to ama volume and transcoded to DNX220. At the time it was for a quick radio cut and wasn't going to continue on my end. Now I'm cutting the whole show and want to make things air tight for reconform. I haven't spent a lot of quality ama time but my plan is to name the bins for the individual card folder names I've been given for example "BCC-Portman-DAY1-CF1" without the " marks. This works for a bin name and a tape name but the dashes make me wonder if I will
get burned with some illegal characters causing issues under the hood. So far so good but just wanted to ask. Now for the media I've already transcoded without adding a reel name first I can modify and add a source but I seem to recall that the reel number metadata gets baked in more robustly if it is done before the initial transcode. Should I be concerned about just adding a reel name after the fact and would it be worth re transcoding the media adding the reel number before the transcode? I can always modify the existing radio cut to match the reel names so it would relink to a new transcodes. I'm not under a big time crunch so I'm viewing this as a learning process as well as a job so I don't mind redoing some of my initial work if it will make for a better workflow when it comes to online. Heck I'm not even doing the online so I don't know why I'm so worried but it just seems like the right thing to do. Any suggestions and experience
is welcome.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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