[Andy Peters]

[Alex Richardson] “Whacked Lumetri on a clip, and set it to use the Amira LUT. Made that a preset. Highlighted a load of clips – dragged the LUT onto them. For some reason, it DIDN’T apply the new Lumetri filter (with Amira LUT), but it did get the original one working again…?! Anyway, all working now – so if you’re having the same problem, try that!”

That worked for me. Thanks, Alex!

[Andy Peters]

It’s been a while, but I’m back with another question. I’m finally getting back to organizing our stock library, and I’m wondering if you could throw some advice my way on how you structure your stock library.

When I first started (and I didn’t get too far before we got crazy busy) I had one project called “Stock Footage” and within that I had created a folder for each client and then various category bins within each client folder. Now, as I’m looking at it again, I’m wondering if it’s best to create an Avid Project (on the Stock partition) for each client; then within each client-specific Avid Project I would create a folder for each job we do for that client and then divide up the corresponding footage into bins. My fear is that the first option would end up with the Stock Footage project growing to big and disorganized with every single client’s footage over the years.

The third option is to just have one Stock Footage project like I currently do, and then to not divide footage up by client, but to just make category bins like “Babies” “Cars” “Landscapes” “Timelapses” etc that would contain footage from various projects.

Do any of those make the most sense? How do you guys do it? The only reason I’ve considered the splitting footage up by clients and jobs is that we would know where to look when we’re thinking of a shot we used a long time ago — “remember that one shot of the little kid with his toy mower in the backyard? let’s use that” and then I know which specific client/job we pulled that for and can go right to it.

But keeping things more general (the third option) seems like the most natural way to do a stock footage library.

Thanks!

[Andy Peters]

Thanks for you reply. It is definitely helpful. I have another question regarding my stock/b-roll partition and files:

I have a whole vault (which now exists as our stock partition) of Pro Res 422 HQ stock/b-roll clips that we used for Final Cut Pro edits. As we move forward with editing these rip projects in Avid, would you recommend just AMA linking to those ProResHQ files that already exist? Or is it better for our final output to create a stock footage project, and then transcode and consolidate all of those files into DNxHD 60 within that project ahead of time?

Just as an extra piece of info: For projects where we are working with stock/b-roll footage, we deliver Final Quicktimes in 720p with H.264 codec, hence my thought of just re-transcoding everything to DNxHD 60. Doesn’t working with ProResHQ footage that is AMA linked end up making things a bit difficult in the end when you’re outputting? I’m still researching info regarding working with ProResHQ in Avid, but if you have any tips, I’d gladly take them.

Side note: I’m not sure why we started transcoding all of our ripped footage to ProResHQ. It’s a bit overkill for projects where you’re working with footage where the quality range varies from less than 480p all the way up to 1080p and you’re outputting at 720p.

Thanks for your time!