The Murch thread brought up a lot of interesting discussion around audio...
I'm curious how folks like to deal with their audio now that it's common
to have so many iso tracks. In the good old days, it was pretty
straightforward to deal with a couple of audio tracks per clip of video
-- now it's pretty common to have 8 tracks per clip, maybe more. But
who really wants all those mics in offline cutting? Setting up an
asymmetric trim with 99 tracks of audio seems like a recipe for carpal
tunnel apocalypse.
On the doc I'm currently cutting, I'll generally build a selects reel
for a scene, pick the best 1 or 2 mics which are usually pretty
consistent for a given scene, get rid of the rest of the tracks, and cut
from the selects reel with just 1 or 2 audio tracks left. Often I'm
down to a single centre-panned audio track that's the sound mixer's temp
mix. If I run into problems when cutting I can easily matchback to the
source and check the other mics.
When time comes for the sound handover, I kind of assumed that if I
exported an AAF and copied the full-length source media rather than
consolidating, that the AAF would include the iso tracks that I haven't
cut into my sequence, so the sound folks would have easy access to
them. Now in testing, I find that's not the case -- the AAF only
carries over the tracks actually used in my sequence.
I'm getting the impression there's no easy way for sound to get back to
multiple tracks unless I include them in my sequence. I can display
reference clips for my audio, and quickly build a giant assembly that
would include all the tracks from all the clips, but there doesn't seem
to be any automated way for sound to make use of an AAF of that in ProTools.
Reading Steve Hullfish's account of the sound post on the War Room
recently was interesting, but didn't sound very promising. It sounds
like you chose the best mic for each piece of dialogue, Steve, passed
that along to sound post, and then the sound assistants spent days
manually reassembling all iso tracks so the mixer could access them. Is
that really as good as it gets? Or are there more automated workflows?
Posted by: Michael Brockington <mbrock321@gmail.com>
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