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The best way to organize your capture?
Hey there just wondering if anyone can help? I am looking for the best method to organize and capture footage taken from a shoot. Although i know this is a matter of personal preference some of you may come up with a better solution down to our circumstances.
The problem at the moment is the shoots are taken and roughly guided by a script. Once the footage is finished it given to the editor who captures the whole thing (yes i know) and cuts the footage up and then renames as he goes.
This becomes disastrous when the rough edit is then given to a professional editing company to add to and finish off! So of course there is no sync with what the producer has on his script and what the editor has captured and they spend too much time and money searching for the footage.
My first instinct was to get them to batch capture and label, which i will do unless there is an even better option.
Am i completely barmy in suggesting there is a method of logging the footage in a form which the AVID (media composer 4.3 i think) capture tool will recognize and automatically batch capture the footage into. Therefore the pro editor could be given this digital log as a sync of what has digitized.
Further more does anyone know if there is a good video tutorial to teach me the different capturing techniques?
Kind regards for any help,
Ben
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I use bins to separate my stuff.
Hard to see here but I keep a bin for sequnces, a bin for talkin heads, a bin for b-roll (sometimes per topic) and a bin for grafix and audio. Each project is different but it’s really all the same, organization-wise.
I too capture entire tapes because I do reality and I just cant spend the time logging shots I may wanna use. I need it all to tell the story and I use shots that were not shots at all all the time.
I use locators on these clips to mark certain goings on. Labelling helps too. I use my own little abriviations to list out as many things on that clip as possible. I never use thumbnails as they take up space. I sort by list only so I can see everything I have.
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“The problem at the moment is the shoots are taken and roughly guided by a script. Once the footage is finished it given to the editor who captures the whole thing (yes i know) and cuts the footage up and then renames as he goes.
This becomes disastrous when the rough edit is then given to a professional editing company to add to and finish off! So of course there is no sync with what the producer has on his script and what the editor has captured and they spend too much time and money searching for the footage.
My first instinct was to get them to batch capture and label, which i will do unless there is an even better option. ”
So, what’s different about what your rough editor does and a traditional offline/online workflow where the sequence would be Decomposed by the Online facility and all material re-captured via Batch Capture?
I’m just not following exactly what the problem is. It should not matter at all what the clip names are as long as the Tape Names they were captured from were all unique and correct.
Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)
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