Sending an Avid timeline to Color?

[Shane Ross]

Color doesn’t work with EDLs. Nor does it work with Avid media. What you will have to do is export an AAF of your sequence, and then use Automatic Duck Pro Import 2.0 to bring that into FCP (Make sure the Avid codecs are installed on the FCP machine). Then in FCP you media manage to ProRes, then send to Color.

But then getting back to Avid? You’d need Automatic Duck Pro EXPORT, and the Avid MC version would have to be one that can handle ProRes, like MC 5.

Shane

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[Frank Raposo]

Thank you. AD Pro Import is the route I’ll go then. I’m using MC 5.5. But since I won’t sent it to Color until after everything is locked, could I just export my timeline from Color to FCP for the final render? The videos are going to end up on the web so I really want to preserve as much quality as I can before I shrink them down. Which way would you suggest I go after Color?

Thanks

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[Shane Ross]

[frank Raposo] “But since I won’t sent it to Color until after everything is locked,”

Smart. Never send to Color until your project is locked.

[frank Raposo] ” could I just export my timeline from Color to FCP for the final render? “

No. That’s not how Color works. YOu send to Color…color correct…render in Color, send back to FCP. Then things are rendered, and new clips are generated..and referenced by FCP.

[frank Raposo] “Which way would you suggest I go after Color?”

Export from FCP as a self contained file…then compress with your favorite compression software. Compressor, Sorenson, whathaveyou.

Shane

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