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720p/59.94 to SD DBeta Help Please
Dear Video Professionals,
I am the chief audio engineer and in-house “tech” guy at a boutique post house in NYC. My boss has thrown me into the deep end of the pool by installing an Avid MC Adrenaline with the DNxcell HD card and booking in a 720p/59.94 P2 HD project with a terrific and deeply experienced, but non-technical editor doing his first HD edit of a 9 minute long-form on a wickedly short timeline! After many hours of wrestling the P2 files, the Avid, and a finicky Avid LVD drive array, we completed a rough edit in 4 hours that the client is thrilled with. We still need to import final graphics and do a sound mix, then output the 720p/59.94 to a Panasonic DVCpro HD (the 1400) HD master, as well as a NTSC 29.97 Digibeta SD master with final distribution (for now) taking place on SD DVDs generated from the DBeta SD master.
How do I properly achieve all of this??
I have already encountered the Digital Cut request for a video mixdown of the project. (Instead we made a tape of the rough via crash record, but I can’t make the masters that way.) HELP!! Any amount of detail will be helpful. I MUST ship on Friday 9/12!!!
Thank you in advance!
P. Dennis Mitchell
Audio Post Mixer (and newbie Avid tech)
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4 Replies
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I’m not quite sure what the delima is.
No need for a video mixdown unless I am misunderstanding something.
He can lay it off with a digital cut directly to Dbeta for mastering. If he can’t pull off the sound design within Avid itself, he can hand you anything from an OMF to a quicktime movie. Are you on protools?
Often time does not allow for that, which is why I mention just having him finish it up himself. I do know facility owners love to double bill but it’s something that has to be done without missing deadlines. Not trying to squeez you out of the loop but in my opinion, a good editor has no need for a sound designer to come behind him. Sweetening is by far done quickest with the project open right in front of him.
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Not trying to squeez you out of the loop but in my opinion, a good editor has no need for a sound designer to come behind him. Sweetening is by far done quickest with the project open right in front of him.
Grinner – I have been both a video and audio editor and I have to say I disagree with this comment. A good editor can do a good job with mixing, sure, but a sound designer will still do it better, if not faster.
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Grin,
Thanks for your reply. I’m not sure you understood my request. I am a sound guy being asked to be an Avid tech and I am looking for some assistance on outputting a 720p project. I do not want to be a video editor, but I do want to help my video editor complete a difficult job with professional results. Any specific help you can provide is very much appreciated.Sincerely,
P. Dennis Mitchell -
again just a simple QT you can reference is fine. He’ll just import your audio file when you are done.
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