[Commandergoat]

Sorry, I wasn’t clear earlier about the transfer session. Yes, the transfer session is for final color, so it will only involve selects in the cut.

The only HD hitch I have in this entire workflow is at the final transfer session. We are offlining in SD using DVCam down-converts, and we’ll online/conform/finish in SD. To do the final color correction, we will (obviously) use the source HD footage and down-convert the final color to DigiBeta.

It sounds like I may need to convert my EDL for the tape-to-tape, but I’ll definitely call the transfer house before hand to see what they want to do.

Thanks for all the help guys!

[Commandergoat]

Thanks for the response.

I know that cinema tools can convert my EDL, but I guess my real question is if the conversion is even necessary for my transfer?

I mean, should I treat this any differently than if I was going to a film transfer after working with 29.97 dailies? I never had to do any conversions for those transfer sessions.

Sorry if this is any easy/stupid question…or if I’m just over-thinking the issue. Sadly, I don’t have much experience with HD, let alone working off of down-converts that will go back to the source.

Thanks for the help.