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Feature workflow
Hi all.
I have a question regarding FCP workflow for a feature that will be cut by 2 people (+ possibly an assistant editor).
To make things trickier the people working on the project may be separated (geographically) at times.
Now, we are in the process of logging all the footage in DV-rez, and all media should fit on 1 single 500GB HD witout problems. My thought is that each editor could have a “local” disk with all media (exact clones), and thus be able to just exhange project files via e-mail to view each others work…
Now, the question becomes this: Should the project files contain all scenes (in separate sequences), or should each project file have all media references but only contain a single cut scene (sequence)?
In the latter case there will be one project file for each scene, and any number of versions of that scene, making for several hundred project files. – the upside to this I guess is that it will be simple and easy for several editors to collaborate on scenes. Say for instance editor one is designated the acronym E1, For his first cut of scene 65 he would then create a project file named E1_S65_V1. He would then email that scene to Editor two. Editor two rewiews the scene together with the director, makes some tweaks, and then saves the new project file as E1(E2)_S65_V2. If this version of the scene is considered the final version of the scene, a reference movie (no media) would then be made, and put into a separate project file kept by all editors called ASSEMBLY.
In the former case, I don’t really know how to handle the excange of files since as far as I know there is no easy way of e-mailing a separate sequence that can then be modified by someone else… is there? And this might turn into a chaos of what version is where…
Any input on this?
Kind regards
jack.
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One caveat: Final Cut Pro HD (4.5) has a bug where it does not preserve speed changes (slo-mo, freeze frames, etc) correctly when passing project files back and forth.
Also, instant messenger is good for transferring project files (you do not need to stuff them like you do when you email).
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