Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Red AMA EDL data

 

Or you could've 'Set Bin Display' in your sequence bin to 'Show reference clips'...

Christopher Pitbladdo
Creative Director

DB Creative
496 Ferry Road
Edinburgh
EH5 2DL
Tel: 0131 552 5530
Mob: 07590 570 683
Email: christopher@dbcreative.tv
Web: www.dbcreative.tv

On 17 Jan 2011, at 23:57, Dylan Reeve <dylan@dylan.wibble.net> wrote:

> Job, 'love' is probably too strong a word, but I'm very appreciative of your
> help on this :)
>
> This is just the sort of lateral thinking I'd been lacking! It worked
> perfectly. Initially it was slow going as each "roll" was in it's own bin
> (over 120) but then I realised I could just use Media Tool to gather them up
> and copy them all into their own bin, and applied the Filename into the
> Camroll of all 2500ish clips in just seconds.
>
> Dylan Reeve
> http://dylanreeve.com/
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dylan
>> If you dupe (crtl-D) the masterclipnames into the Camroll or Labroll
>> column, any (older) subclips and subclips will also take that metadata.
>>
>> After that, in EDL mamager, choose Labroll as the Source, and File16 as the
>> template.
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 17 jan. 2011, at 07:45, Dylan Reeve <dylan@dylan.wibble.net<dylan%40dylan.wibble.net>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We're getting to the online stage of a RED telefeature and finding
>>> trouble...
>>>
>>> The workflow we adopted was AMA R3D into Media Composer then transcode to
>>> DNxHD36
>>>
>>> Now the plan is to reconform from R3D in Resolve for finishing and grade.
>>> But there's some issues...
>>>
>>> It seems that the Assistant Editor, who was great but not familiar with
>> RED
>>> stuff, has taken it upon himself to add 'Tape' metadata to all the AMA
>> clips
>>> before transcoding. This make no difference in the editing process, but
>> now
>>> that we've come to online it's made exporting an EDL for Resolve to be
>>> pretty difficult as the Avid EDL manager offers only a "Tape or Filename"
>>> source option, which in this workflow usually this would create an EDL
>> with
>>> filename in the source column (using the "File_16" EDL type) however
>> because
>>> a Tape number is specified it is using that instead.
>>>
>>> I've been unable to get any settings to give me something usable - I
>> really
>>> need the filename for the conform. Neither the "Clip Name" (gives me
>> Subclip
>>> name with scene/take info) nor "Source File" (only gives be the tape name
>>> eg, "A071") comments options help.
>>>
>>> I also can't modify the clips to have no Tape info once it's been
>> assigned.
>>>
>>> I've sent a couple of sample AAFs to the post house to test with Resolve
>> (or
>>> whatever else thy can try using) but would like to get an EDL if possible
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> Anyone dealt with this issue before? It's frustrating that the EDL
>> Manager
>>> doesn't offer an explicit option to choose between Tape or Filename.
>>>
>>> Dylan Reeve
>>> http://dylanreeve.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:
>> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
>>>
>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at: http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

__._,_.___
Recent Activity:

Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:   http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/

.

__,_._,___

No comments:

Post a Comment