This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Link quicktime dsrl and traditional import

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Link quicktime dsrl and traditional import

What's your beef with time code? Is it because of over and under cranked footage? Time of day time code helps tremendously with all our reality multicamera multigrouping. Sure it's not fool proof but it's more or less a good starting point. For that reason alone it would be a terrible pain to have to rely on frame numbers for most of the shows I work on. I just don't understand why time code is problematic for you. Clearly there are aspects of your workflows that are different than my day to day projects. Perhaps working more in compositing and Vfx frame numbers are more conducive to those work flows but in Avid I can toggle between time code and frame count. Not to mention how a decompose might be effected. How would you handle a frame count workflow when you only uprez the used portions with handles. In those scenarios the frame count of the new master clips wouldn't match that of the original offline master clip. What am I missing here?

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <mikeparsons.tv@...> wrote :

I find it hard to believe in 2016 that we don't have true uuid on every clip created. True metadata referential integrity so we can care free change names and locations of clips with zero worry.

I also believe it's time for timecode to be retired in exchange for frame numbers so we can get past the need for correlated timecode when shooting off time base frame rates.

UUID to locate the clip, frame number to find the frame.

Done.

Best regards

Mike

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On Mar 22, 2016, at 3:52 PM, Michael Brockington mbrock321@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Yes, I do much the same thing with bulk clip renaming before ingest, adding a prefix with unique card ID to formats with filenames that are less robust. (Very diplomatic designation!) Of course some formats don't allow for changing the clipname without breaking the card structure.

Curious how the tape ID column winds up being used in your workflow? Do you find a use for it inside Avid, or is it more for interchange with other apps?

Cheers,
--Michael

On 2016-03-22 1:42 AM, Pat Horridge pat@... [Avid-L2] wrote:

The standard Post workflow is to seperate robust AMA sources tgat have UMIDs from non robust sources tgat reky on clip name and timecode only (some not even timecode)
Those sources are then bulk renamed to ensure each AMA linked clip has a unique clip name.
The clips folder name is the added to the tape id column (mot rape name)
This helps ensure reliable conforming.
Its all in the prep.

Pat from his mobile.