This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Shot List from Media Composer?

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Shot List from Media Composer?

If you need that info, the only thing that I think would work inside the AVID is Multiple EDLs, one for each video layer. I have had to do that long ago when bringing complex edits to linear online, but I don't see the use currently.

I am not familiar with the software package mentioned earlier in the thread for FCP. Does it somehow do all of that? (Give Timeline timecodes and number of times footage is used?) Would an AAF with no media serve instead?

Otherwise I see taking the Decompose one step further, turn on dupe detection before deleting the sequence, and matching back to clips used multiple times, adding a column in the bin for that. Or just create sub clips for each piece of footage used multiple times, so you can get the total duration of what was used.

If sequence of when used in timeline is crucial, another "by hand" step would involve adding a column for that, and matching back to each clip and adding an incremental number for it. When done, sort by that column, and you have a shot list in order of usage in the sequence. You could alternately add an aux TC track (in a project with film activated) and just match the in for each clip and create a start timecode matching the sequence timecode, then sort by that TC before printing or exporting.Terribly manual process which might be OK for my kind of work (Promo, Mostly) but impossible for long form.

I assume shot logs are for knowing what footage was used, for licensing or archiving or online. Zero frame decomposition would do that, and include any footage imported or AMA linked, if so desired.

As someone else mentioned, the sequence report may also be a good source of this information as well.

Not sure what the other stuff would be needed for.

Dave Hogan

On Sunday, August 31, 2014 6:38 PM, "Steve Hullfish steve4lists@veralith.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

That might work for the original poster, but I can't think of any way to have the list be in the order of the sequence. It would be probably very difficult for Avid to have a bin column that included the sequence time that the clip was used because the clip be used in multiple sequences or even multiple times in the same sequence. Also there would be the question of multiple tracks. AND multiple parts of the same shot being used at different points in the sequence. This could give you duration information which is a critical part of the shot list for things like rights management for stock footage.

Steve

On Aug 31, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Dave Hogan mactvman@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Not sure what you need in your shot list, but I have a few ideas that might help...

1) Copy sequence to new bin.
2) Decompose it with 0 frame handles, be sure to include/exclude imported or tape based media based upon what you need or want. This will allow you to include AMA linked media as well. (be sure to turn off "Offline Media Only").
3) Delete the sequence.
4) This bin represents your shot list from the sequence...