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  Film editing and FLX files

  Posted by Matthew Kasey on December 6, 2006 at 4:04 pm

  I’m doing my first film match back edit (offline) and I want to make sure I do everthing right. From what I understand, here is the process.

  The film will be one-light transfered to digibeta, dubbed to 3/4″ for me to edit. With the 3/4 tapes should be a FLX file. I know I’m supposed to import this, and it should give me basically offline clips to digitize the 3/4’s. Is that right?

  Then after I’ve edited the project, I export an EDL for the film colorist, who then gives me back a 3/4 (dubbed from a digibeta transfer), I overcut my old timeline with the one-light footage, and then send that EDL to the online editor who works off the Digibeta of color timed film.

  I guess my main question is if there’s any step I’m missing, and exactly how the FLX file works and is imported. I’m running on an Avid Meridian (Mac).

  Thanks for any help on this.

  Matthew Kasey replied 19 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Matthew Kasey

  December 6, 2006 at 5:17 pm

  I’m sorry, I meant Avid Media Composer. Shouldn’t have written the post before my first cup of coffee today.

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