There are a lot of pitfalls that can happen in any workflow if you don't know how it's supposed to end.
You HAVE to determine the final "DI" or "on-line" for feature delivery (including knowing what your deliverables are) AHEAD OF TIME. Sure, it's possible to just dive in and start cutting, but the only way to know how to start is to know how you will end. Without that knowledge, you can hit snags in on-line (especially with an outside house) that could be devastating and costly.
Figure out how and who will do the on-line and then have them advise you as to what to do. For example, should you subclip every one of your dailies (editing from the subclips)? Will that allow for better linking and syncing?
I agree with virtually everything Terry said (it seems so familiar to this book I read somewhere...)
AMA first. Edit in an off-line resolution. Perhaps sync in Avid, perhaps have the dailies company do the syncing. That is one of those questions best answered by your end audio provider. Perhaps subclip everything. Then on the back end, link back to the AMA files if you're going to go out to an outside house. Then that house can use the camera originals to do the conform in Da Vinci Resolve or whatever they use. Or if you're not really editing a feature that will be projected in a theater (HD only, maybe Blueray) or you can only afford an HD output for theatrical, then you can then transcode the AMA back up to the highest resolution and color space possible for the color correction and conform in Avid.
The truth is that you can't get sufficient answers for a real feature film workflow from a couple of emails from guys that don't have all of the facts - and that's no indictment of the excellent advice you received from Terry. Honestly, what you need is a post-production supervisor that is experienced and can navigate the entire workflow AHEAD OF TIME. As a prominent editor that I interviewed once said, (paraphrasing) "I know that at the beginning of the editing process on a feature film I have to do A, B and C - not because somebody told me I had to - but because I know that at the end of the process D will happen if I don't... D being a bad thing." So, the only way you know what you have to do at the beginning of the process is to know what is going to happen at the END of the process. Right now, we don't even know if you'll be finishing and doing color correction in Avid or handing it off to Technicolor or someone. That's a HUGE HUGE difference. And every outside post house has their own workflow and methodologies that will affect what happens at the beginning.
Steve Hullfish
On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:41 AM, tcurren@aol.com wrote:
If you are finishing in MC, then yes you would relink and either work with the AMA files (I REALLY don't recommend this) or transcode to your finishing resolution.
In Resolve the AAF should work. There are gotchas to any third party workflow and you should perform due diligence in research at the beginning of your offline process if you know what third party finishing route you will be going.
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