Re: [Avid-L2] Re: And Now a Word About Online Finishing

On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Curtis Nichols wrote:

> When I'm laying down the essentials of the story, I ignore audio or
> color problems. Once the story is done, I ignore it while mixing.
> Let me finish the audio before sending it back to the story editor.
> Of course, that's the real strength of NLE. I can go back and tweak
> the story after everything else is done. But as much as possible, I
> focus on one process at a time, and ignore everything else.

Many years back (when I lived in Australia) I was doing an article for
an Oz magazine on "offline is dead" because we were just getting the
ability to finish uncompressed on a desktop system. I was pretty gung
ho about that idea and ready to write off "offline" until I posted for
thoughts on the Avid-L (and others, but their responses were not
useful).

I became convinced that "offline" as a technical necessity was, in
fact, probably 'dead', but that "offline" as a state of mind was
definitely alive and well. Offline is about storytelling; online about
technical accuracy.

I ultimately wrote a follow up article on why "offline" was alive and
well - coining the term for what Curtis is describing as "multi-line"
- focus on storytelling; color correction; audio; titling etc one pass
(focus) at a time.

Philip

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