[Glenn Sakatch]

Your plan looks pretty good. I don’t know off the top of my head if the dnx media created by the camera can simply drop into an avid folder, or if you will have to wash it. That should be a pretty easy test however.

Yes you can keep your Avid MediaFiles folder nicely organized. Put the current footage into a folder called 1.
Launch Avid, let it build its database. Once done, go back and rename “1” to what ever you want.
Create a bin in Avid called Day “###”, and import the database file from your newly named Avid MediaFiles folder.

You should now have media for that day online.

You can’t see audio waveforms in the viewer window if that is what you are thinking… at least i don’t think you can… but you can certainly see them on the timeline, in either source or record mode. Are you thinking that is how you are going to sync the audio?
Hopefully your audio has matching timecode, and you can let Avid AutoSync the sound and picture.
Avid can do its own waveform analysis, but only on a single clip by clip basis…you can only select 1 audio and video source at at time.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

the basic import should work. I can’t remember when .scc import was brought in, but i thought it was before 8.4.
You might want to check the caption file. I think it has to be 59.94 or 29.97 for Avid to import it. If it was created at 23.98, i think you might not get it to work.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Your running time shouldn’t be the same, as was pointed out , because of the different frame rates.

You can try taking the the mp4 into a 59.94 project, and output it, as a quicktime, with the proper name, thus converting the frame rate to match your original. From that new submaster, you might be able to relink.

If you are trying to recreate 20 – 30 clips, it might be easier to call up the clips and just recreate them.

Automation is wonderful when it works, but if it takes 12 hours to figure out how to automate a 2 hour task….then maybe its easier to just do the 2 hour task over again.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’ve started using premiere pro for this purpose. Bring in an .scc file, duplicate it, convert it to 708.
Put the video on track 1, 608 captions on track 2, and 708 captions on track 3. Export as an mxf file with embedded captions.

I wish Avid could either convert the 608 to 708 like premiere does, or read an mcc file, which does have both.
I had forgotten about the aaf option, but I’m running the less expensive captionmaker version, which doesn’t export aafs, just .scc or mcc files.

You said the aaf was broken in previous versions…that might be part of why I was so frustrated with Avids workflow.
608 is easy out of Avid. 708 is a PITA.

(Better yet submit to CBC…they just ask for the .scc file …Yaaaaaa!)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Assuming you mean 500 gigs and 120 gigs for those last 2 ssds.

On paper this looks fine, but in a realistic workflow I think you might find it gets a bit tiresome always having to check and double check where your footage is going, renders are going, titles are going etc. Yes you can set up base locations in media creation window, but as soon as those drives start filling up, Avid will start suggesting other locations based on space. Maybe its just me, but I much prefer a simpler setup.

Yes, OS etc is always segregated from the rest of your media.
I have a drive dedicated to “user projects”. This has folders for each projects misc. items. Audio in, audio out, graphics, lists, movies in, and movies out. (Now in recent years movies in has become more of an intermediate movies area. This was originally designed and used when everything came off tape. So you might only import 1 or 2 “movies” during a project. Now it is more for odds and ends that come in, but are not part of the shoot) Nothing gets imported into the project unless it is first placed into this structure.
This gets archived with the project so in 2 years everything can be rebuilt, and Avid knows exactly where to look, and so do I.

After that, I have my media drive. This has a footage in folder, with subfolders for each project. Camera originals go here. This is a 24tb raid 5 drive. This drive also has my Avid MediaFiles structure on it.

When I’m working, I don’t want to think too much about where everything is going to render to. Put it on the main drive and move on. I keep my Avid Media extremely organized, so again, easy to archive at the end of the project.
I have enough projects right now where they shot a 5 or 10 min short that would fill your SSD without blinking.

As I said, your setup is fine, but I bet before long, your ssds are full and you are putting stuff all over the place anyway.
Invest in a larger raided storage device.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

What size is your sequence?

If you are trying to do a pan and scan on the still, maybe look at building it in fusion first and exporting a QT.
If you are just trying to fit to frame, maybe resize it in photoshop or similar first?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Remember, you might be able to get a list out of Resolve to Avid to build the sequence, but you will not be getting all the bin information and organization, so you will pretty much have to rebuild that yourself. Might be time for a crash course in fcpx if you only have 5 days.

Once the edit is locked, then move it over to resolve for a finish…or resolve to avid for a finish.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I think you will find adding your own dissolve in the color version where an original dissolve happens is pretty much seamless, as long as you match the speed of the original dissolve. (color the outgoing shot as you would, color the incoming shot as you would, and dissolve between the two.)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You will know fast import is working right away. It is waaaay faster, and actually says “fast importing clip…”

There are a few restrictions for it to work. The codec you are importing has to be on the box already.
The frame rate has to match the project
The raster size has to match the project.
There might be another one that i’m missing.

Also, when you go to import it, you have to select the same codec as an mxf variant in your import settings.
(you can’t fast import a prores HQ file as a dnx175 file…just as a proresHQ.mxf file)

I don’t think it can happen in the bg, but i’m not positive.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

i use leading underscores all the time to move a bin to the top of the list.
the minus key should work fine as well.

There are still a few restrictions in the bin naming…but Avid will tell you right away that it isn’t allowed.

Glenn