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XDCAM EX workflow between two different editors: Proyect managing?
Hi! I´m starting a new proyect on PPro CS6 of a 6 chapters series 45 min. long each for broadcast. Footage is in different formats and codecs, but what is bothering me is the XDCAM EX file/folders based structure.
So the director will cut all the good takes of some interviews, put them in several sequences (one for each chapter) and then send me the ppro proyect file .prproj.
Both have same footage and folder structure for XDCAM EX files, but he´s using an external disk and i am using an internal 9 TB Raid0.
My internal unit has letter D:/ and director´s external unit is any other.
If all the footage where in one simple folder, there will be no problem in relinking media in PPro proyect pannel automatically, but I´m afraid that when i´ll want to open his proyect file, premiere is going to ask me for the entire proyect files one by one due to the file/folders structure of XDCAM EX footage.
Even if he saved a Proyect Managed folder with all the footage on his timeline, relinking need is more than probable.
Also, we could ingest through Prelude and change clips name transcoding to other format and making single files in one only folder, but i´d like to maintain native format so, anyone has a good tip to help me in this workflow?I´ll appreciate any help, thank you very much
Regards
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If you maintain the folder structure you should only have to locate one clip and the rest will fall into line. You’ll have to do it for each different folder, but shouldn’t have to do it for individual clips. The original location (D, Media, Raid) shouldn’t matter. The CC versions of Prelude allow you to transfer and rename footage without transcoding. The folder structure and original file names remain, but the clips appear in all Adobe apps with new names. I don’t think this functionality is available with CS6.
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Thank you very much Paul for the tips. Ok so if I relink one clip of each BPAV folder, Premiere will find every single clip within this folder, although they are in lots of different subfolders, is that right? Well i´m litle bit relaxed knowing it, althoug it´ll be still a headache, as we´ll have tons of folders of a 30 day filming. I´ll have a try as soon as we have all this XDCAM EX footage.
I guess that there is no other way of doing it?Unfortunately we don´t have Prelude CC so won´t have this option for putting some order and renaming footage, which will probably help a lot in this proyect.
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Man, I hope it works that way in CS6. I think it does.
If footage is missing Premiere will give you a list of everything in that state and then just pointing it to one it will exhaust that location finding everything it can. Then you move on to the next. Don’t be concerned what the location name of the original was. Premiere is only looking for where the file is now, not where it was on another machine.
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Ok Paul, i´ll let you know how´s it going when i have all this footage.
Thanks a lot!Cheers
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Ok, some tests done. You´re right, linking one clip will make premiere recognize others in the same folder structure, although they´re in several subfolders, but need to relink manually every clip in different folder structure than previous one.
If only CS6 could have a media type explorer for relinking too as CC and not only a file type explorer it would be more easy.Anyway thanks for your help!
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