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Give me your best try: workprint to Avid
I’ve been asked to inherit a project that has been cut to near-fine edit in 16mm workprint. Now we want to take it digital, and finish the edit in Avid. I’m trying to wrap my head around it, surely someone here can lend a hand-
My suggestion so far is to digitize the entire negative, with Flex files. But then how to reconstruct the edit from that info? Can we read keycode off the workprint, and match it’s arrangement in Avid?
Sound, I know, will be a secondary concern – let’s pretend for the moment there isn’t any. How to make that pile of film come over into Avid?
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As I wrote on the forums, I fear you are going to be spending a lot of time figuring out how to automate a part of the process, when you might be much better off manually recutting the film. TK all negative, bring in all sound, make sync clips and recut the film.
That said, you should be able to do a TK of the workprint and get flex files from that (although they would not necessarily be frame accurate, the KK is not tracked per frame).
Not sure how, but you could possibly build an EDL from that. From that EDL build a sequence, and then you could relink based on KeyKode.
A lot of fun, but it may only get you 20% of what you need, and it may take a lot of time.
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Much appreciated honesty. It helps me at least understand that telecining the whole negative makes sense – there had been discussion of cutting the neg, and just transferring the edit – which I was against, but needed some backup. It would limit the fine cut too much, in my opinion.
Once we have the whole neg transferred into Avid, we should be able to search and find keycode, to facilitate reconstructing the edit, right? I know it won’t be frame accurate – but it will get us in the neighborhood. Like you said – any amount of automation we can introduce – without headaches – will help speed us along. No doubt, we’ve got a little work ahead of us…
2nd question, while I’m here: when we telecine, and go straight to hard drive, what would you recommend for codecs, to smooth the way into Avid, and get the most out of standard 16? (Project will be finished in HD, 1080 23.98).
Many thanks
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