Dynamic Link in workgroup environments?

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I am doing this currently with 2 stations. However each station has a 4TB raid with the exact duplicate files, using the same file structure. So all we are doing is swapping projects, not data. This is partially because of the paranoia with R3D files, you want plenty of backups, since there is no tape to go back to. So we figured we might as well put one of the backups to work.

Stephen Eckelberry

[Alex Udell]

Hmm interesting….

So that answers part of it….

I’m also wondering about simultaneous access…

So if the editor keeps cutting…

and the gfx guy goes ahead and finesses the comp, and then save the file…does it update in PPro while the editor is working?

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Sorry, I may have spoken too soon. This last week we have been doing simple comps in PrPro and cutting back in nested clips of the finished effect. That of course works fine. By the end of this week we will be cutting in the first AE shots, which are traveling mattes.

The workflow as of now is like this: copy the AE project from the B workstation to the A station, relink the clips in AE, then open up the AE comp in PrPro. Stay tuned…

Stephen Eckelberry

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Update:

Have successfully imported an AE comp into Pr created on another machine using the workflow described above. What does not work (for me anyway) is using dynamic link out of Pr to AE then back to PR. So I simply send the name of the clip and the in and out points to the AE guy who creates a new AE project which I then DL into Pr.
I have also use DL to go from Pr to AE for color correcting and export to delivery formats.

Stephen Eckelberry

[Alex Udell]

Stephen,

Thanks for the update.

What Media type are you working with?

GOP based media doesn’t seem to work well with dynamic link.

those types with frame based compression seem to work ok.

At least that’s been my experience.

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I am working with R3D files; Red Camera media.

Stephen Eckelberry

[Alex Udell]

So when you try dynamic link….

do you get the right file, but the wrong frames (in and out)?

This is what I experienced with HDV.

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

No, thank God. Works as advertised. Are you going just one way, from AE to Pr? Or are are going Pr>AE>Pr?

Stephen Eckelberry

[Alex Udell]

Hi Stephen….
What does this mean

“What does not work (for me anyway) is using dynamic link out of Pr to AE then back to PR.”

How does it not work?

Alex

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Going the circular route (Pr>AE>Pr) I can open the AE comp in Pr, put it in the source monitor, but I can’t drag it into a sequence. I tried everything I could think of. But if I import the same clip directly into AE, mark in and out and do the same work, I have no problem with DL once back in Pr.

Stephen Eckelberry