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more about offline edits
Hi all,
i’ve been reading some stuff here about offline and online edit, and finally i have some things clear, i hope at least. But i’m still confused a bit and don’t know if there’s more to know about offline edit or it’s just that the term is not being used properly here at work.
The fuzz about this new project is that we’ll be working on the offline edit these couple of days, but the material i’ll be getting in a external disk is 10 bit 720×486, about 90 GB, I’ll be editin on a 2×2.8 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon with 4GB of Ram, FCP 6. I’ve been told by an experienced editor that there’s no need to do an offline since my machine is gonna do fine with those files. But, still here they keep refering to this coming edit as an offline, and that we’ll send the offline to the client for revision….now, i’m really lost…and preoccupied since i start this edit tomorrow and have send the “offline” to the client on wednesday.
help!
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I’d assume that the people at your work are throwing “offline” around as a synonym for “rough cut”. Because 10-bit Uncompressed is as good as it gets in SD. But you should ask your co-workers. Only they know for sure.
Imagine how surprised they’ll be when you can “online” on the very same machine!
(this is assuming that you’re finishing in SD, and no subsequent HD uprez, or film out is happening…)
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in my experience, “offline” editing is a term that refers to the concept of going to a less expensive edit room and make all the tedious edit decisions to create the “base” or “skeleton” or rough cut of an edit.
When non-linear edits starting to pop up, the concept of editing with lower resolution (or quality) footage came into play. These edit systems couldn’t handle the high quality stuff very well and that’s why they were so cheap.
After all the time consuming edit decisions were made, an edl (edit decision list) was created and sent to the online editor who would re-create the project at high quality and then begin to put the effects, graphics and color correction and such. These rooms were generally much more expensive.So having said this, those terms have pretty much lost their true meaning. However, I guess the concept of beginning the an edit, knowing that someone else (usually with a beefier system) will be completing it, is technically an offline edit, but as stated above, your system is fully capable of completing the project.
This doesn’t really help much other than giving my opinion of the whole process.
I used to offline on an AVID, and send my edl to a suite that had a quantel henry, and he would do all the fun, neat polishing, but that was almost 10 years ago.
I don’t hear those terms very often anymore, as most editors are finishing on the same system.
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