This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: sync/transcode Q

Thursday, April 11, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: sync/transcode Q

Is the relink in online really that painless? Does it matter if they change clip names?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, electropura212 <electropura212@...> wrote:
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> AMA/Transcode the H.264 to DNX 36, edit, the re-link the sequence to the
> H.264 footage and transcode to DNX 175 or whatever you intend to online at.
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> On Thursday, April 11, 2013, ksirul wrote:
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> > Also, they want to transcode to a low res for offline and then go back to
> > the original file for online. What is the best way to handle this
> > especially with 7D footage? They are on MC6.5
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ken
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> > 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, "ksirul" <kenavid2@> wrote:
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> > > Below is a clients workflow they are considering (We are doing online in
> > Symphony) and were just asking if there was a better way to do this. I
> > thought that it would be easier to use PluralEyes do do the syncing. Is
> > that better than what they have? Either way, is it best to use AMA and do
> > all the syncing before transcoding or should they transcode everything
> > first and then sync? Is there a better way?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > KEN
> > >
> > >
> > > we have changed to recording sound on the Zaxcom Nomad, sending audio
> > time code to the 7D and syncing that way. This has caused some disruption
> > in the work flow.
> > >
> > >
> > > We have video with audio timecode, and audio based on the same timecode.
> > >
> > > We want to do two simple things:
> > > 1) We want to AutoSync the audio and video (to make subclips), then
> > > 2) AutoSequence the audio, video, and subclips to make a Sync Map
> > timeline that shows all of the footage for that day spread over a sequence
> > that essentially represents real time.
> > >
> > > Because AutoSequence only works with START timecode, this is the only
> > way we could determine to do this:
> > > 1) Read Audio Timecode for all video clips, which populates AUX TC1 with
> > the audio timecode values
> > > 2) For each video clip, one by one, we copy the new value in the AUX TC1
> > column to the START column [by default, the START column for all of our
> > clips is 0:00:00:00]
> > > 3) Run AutoSync on these video clips and the audio clips to pair both
> > and create subclips.
> > > 4) Run AutoSequence on these video clips, audio clips, and subclips to
> > create a sync map timeline.
> > > 5) Then for each video clip we go back and, one by one, change the START
> > timecode column value back to 0:00:00:00.
> > >
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