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  • Avid – Repeated shots in different sequences

    Posted by Rafael Boelter on July 23, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    Hi everyone.

     

    I’m working on an Avid Project with two other editors simultaneously, editing different films using the same footage. However, the client has asked us to avoid repeating shots in different films.

     

    Is there a way of knowing if there are duplicated clips between different sequences in different bins?

     

    Cheers

     

    Raf

    Mads Nybo jørgensen
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  • Mads Nybo jørgensen

    July 23, 2024 at 10:17 pm

    Hey Raf,

    “Is there a way of knowing if there are duplicated clips between different sequences in different bins?”

    That would be a neat trick, but if like me, and you safe multiple versions in your sequence, then you are never going to get through the list inside your project.

    Fastest way is to put the final sequences from each editor in to one Sequence, and do your dupe detection on that.

    Not least as if there is any, then the haggling will have to start over who will need to replace their clips in their timeline.
    Next up, is to watch out where two cameras might have filmed the same scene, but two editors have used different cameras…
    This one of those times where machine learning (A.I.) will one day be able to tell you where all the similar clips are “hiding”.

    Just a viewpoint, but hope that it helps?

    Atb
    Mads

  • Rafael Boelter

    July 24, 2024 at 9:17 am

    Hi Mads.

    That’s a great idea, we’ll try that. And yes, hopefully Avid will get a feature for that in the future.

    Thanks so much!

    Raf

  • Glenn Sakatch

    July 27, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    This sounds like a nightmare.

    “here is all your footage, but you can only use half of it….but i’m not going to tell you which have you can use.”

    Sounds like someone (Director/Producer) should be doing a bit more in their notes to help the editors manage this minefield.

  • Mads Nybo jørgensen

    July 27, 2024 at 3:09 pm

    Hey Glenn

    “Luckily” for editors, it is often that the edit-producer / Producer / Director / Client and so forth, have no idea of what should go where to make a good story, which is why they hire a professional editor to do that for them. I for one likes this sytem, as it provides me with a living. 😉

    It is quite common on larger projects involving mulitiple editors and suites, that some footage such as B-Roll and Stock, will be sourced from a shared “pool”.

    There is also some shows, those with suspense and crime-fighting involved, where they like to keep on repeating what they have already repeated.

    The problem of finding duplicates starts the day the editor saves a version 2 of the Time-line, which could grwo to 50+ versions – that is when the Dupe-Detect tools stops being functional across the whole project, let alone the server/cloud storage used.

    Just a comment.

    atb
    Mads

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