[Eric Wescott]

How can you do it manually then? Is it just something you can’t do via scripting because of some limitation?

[Eric Wescott]

[Shane Ross] “In the future…before you do any shooting…go over the proper procedures of backing up your tapeless media. that simple step is VERY important, and can’t be stressed enough. That’s the weak link in the post chain.”

I did with the cameras I specifically brought to the shoot… Unfortunately many people just brought their own personal cameras to the shoot and were capturing footage we didn’t anticipate. When they submitted it weeks/months later it was too late to fix.

I 3TB drives I’m working with and one is dedicated as a clone so I really just have 3TB of space. There are about 50 cards worth of footage which normally wouldn’t be an issue but there is about 1.5TB of RED footage from the actual shoot on the drive as well. So I just can’t make everything ProRes long term.

Since it’s behind the scenes footage and nothing super high quality I split the difference and am transcoding everything to ProRes Lt. It should be good enough for their purposes and if anybody really wants to improve the quality and notices they probably will be smart enough to figure out how to transcode it manually.

Also, are you the same Shane who produced this tutoral? If so it’s funny you responded as I just watched it before making my original post. 🙂

[Eric Wescott]

I’m more concerned about the ability to assign clips to tracks that can be muted, mixed, and solo’d. I don’t see any way around this being an absolute requirement for serious editing.

It looks like it will all be based on “tags”. You will be able to assign tags (some tagging appears automatic) to audio clips. Then if you want to mute, mix, solo you do it by selecting tags.

I was a little concerned about being able to keep music, dialogue and additional audio organized visually but it looks like the time line attempts to keep similar tagged items grouped on horizontal lines..