So on a tight turn around show I committed to the Avid mixdown workflow for frame rate conversion and I ended up getting burned by my own mistake. I mixed down the 23.976 to ProRes, the delivery format, and then opened a mixdown only sequence in a 59.94 1080I project. Pulldown was perfect etc.... From there I went to save as and in my haste okay'd through the part where it tells me the sequence is a non native format and it will make an Avid DNX220X instead of a ProRes. I'm assuming and about to correct this by making a second mixdown to ProRes while in the 59,94 project and using that to save a same as source. I'm pretty sure that will work but I've always glossed over the part in people's work flows where they mention a second mixdown.
In the past I've done this but the deliverables were to be Avid DNX anyways so I didn't flag the gotcha until now. I know this is the best way to assure a solid file but what a double pain in the arse. The other issue is because the audio stems are 23.976 I have to do audio mixdowns of each track while in the 59.94 project or I get the prompt I must select audio mixdowns in the export settings. Is there a way to avoid that prompt in an elegant manner. I could try reimporting the aaf into the 59.94 project but it's a 23.976 ProTools AAF so I doubt that would work.
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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this is the Avid-L2
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