metadata in film composer

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metadata in film composer

Posted by David Massachi on April 13, 2007 at 7:24 pm

I am starting to digitize footage for a feature film, shot on 35mm and telecined to digibeta. To “save money”, the producers had the telecine guy make simple flex files, which only include this info:

Videotape number, video tape in/out timecode, lab roll, camera roll, KK

He did not sync the sound to digibeta during the telecine.

Each camera roll is one event (master clip) in the flx files they made.

Then they synced the sound using DAT copies of the original DVD-RAMs. During the sync sessions, they created CMX-3600 EDLs of how the sound was laid onto the digibetas. Those EDLs include this info:

sound roll, sound timecode in/out, digibeta master timecode in/out.

I would like to digitize this footage in such a way as to be able to make film cut lists at the end of the edit, plus have the sound editors re-conform the sound, using sound timecode, from the original DVD-RAM recordings. Is there a way to combine the info from the flex files and the sound EDLs to create a bin of clips with all the metadata included in each take? I was thinking that I could edit the text somehow using excel or something, or using Cinema Tools to gather all this info into some kind of ALE for import into Avid.

Any ideas or experience with this problem?

My edit system:

Avid Film Composer v. 10.6.0 (Meridien)
Power Mac G4, 867 MHz
Mac OS 9.2.2
512 MB RAM
ATTO UL3D SCSI card
Avid rS MediaDrives

My 2nd system:

PowerBook G4 17″
1.33 GHz processor
2 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4.9
QuickTime Pro 7.1.5
Cinema Tools 3.1.2

massachi

Michael Phillips replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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Michael Phillips
April 13, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Import the FLEx file by translating them via AvidLogExchange into an ALE file. Select VA1A2 in ALE.
Take the XMX3600 EDL and translate the same way via AvidLogExchange into an ALE file.

Import the FLEx file into a bin. Hilight all the clips then select Import from the File menu. In the options for ALE, select “Merge based on known sources.

The result will be subclips that contain all the information from the FLEx and the EDL. Batch capture the FLEx master clips.

anything 24fps

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