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5D Work Flow
I will be doing a 5D job with multiple camera’s and the drives will be given to the editorial first. When they are finished editing I will end up with a 3 minute piece to grade. Knowing that all 5D clips start at 00:00:00:00 running time only (no time code) should I have the editorial strip the clips with time code before the edit? I am not exactly sure what happens or how the editorial work flow is so that they can be conformed back to me with an EDL. I have run into this with FCP projects and it was a nightmare. These clips will be edited on an Avid as far as I know. I just want to be able to tell them the proper way of putting this thing together up front to avoid any confusion in the end. Anyone have some input here??
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I can not point you on avid but on fcp you can ingest with canon plugin that makes “timecode” to mov files.
You should look something similar to avid also.—
Margus
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Definitely ask their workflow… FCP users more often transcode all the footage to ProRes and add timecode in the process (doing log and transfer or similar) but Avid users have the option (not sure exactly what they do) of assigning timecode that will be reflected in the EDL but doesn’t actually change the metadata of the media…
If there are mostly straight cuts, you could have them provide you with a preconformed master. If it’s more complicated, you could have them include filenames in the comments (hopefully no identical filenames across three cameras) and be sure their EDLs use right timecode, then you’ll have a unique reel # for each clip but overlapping timecode…
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
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Try doing a search on QT Change. I believe it will add a TC track to a QT. You should do this before they start the import / editing process, of course.
Robert Due
Editor / Colorist
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Yeah i get the dreaded red x’s on all my clips in the conform page too with this. its very frustrating with canon dslr footage. I used to transcode to prores etc. but i may have to import to log and capture then grab those files for editing. I would be interested in your experience and maybe a few screen shots with qt change. I find the program a bit baffling.
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It’s all about reel numbers, you can do all of this without timecode, all the files will have unique file names. Just make sure you setup resolve to see the file names.
Try reel number support %/R*.mov
Use this when rendering 5D to pro Rez. Make sure you also select “use prefix, suffix…….” in source mode
Your rendered prorez should have the same file bakes and the file name embedded into the reel name in the metadata ..
When you reconform the edl to the pro Rez Najee sure you set the same reel number support!
Of course this is soooooo simple in ver8 which will be release in two weeks according to my sources!
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