Shane Ross
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Why not DNxHD MXF? That’s a more native format for Avid. DNxHD 115 or 145 (if shot 23.98) should work fine. How much footage are we talking about here?
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Doing a quick test, I couldn’t get them to come across. I don’t even see an option mentioning markers, other than in Resolve when you import XML to have errors come in as Markers. But no markers as markers.
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Are you using the Media Browser to access the files?
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I’m wondering if it’s because you made NEW media. NEW file names… How can it relink when it’s not linking to the masters via AMA…something it would have a connection to….or to transcodes made from those AMA linked files…something else it has a link to. You made media…linked to that. Then made NEW media…completely new in Avid’s eyes. So it’s not relinking because those are different files.
Just a theory, but one based on past experience.
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Talk to the sound facitlity and see what they say. If the editor only worked with one track, then what will need to happen is a full audio conform. Meaning, they’ll need something like the AAF, and ALL of the audio stems. But I’m not 100% positive…you’ll have to ask them. But this is a process that will take a bit on the sound end to deal with.
I work on shows where we have all the isos, and drop in ALL the audio onto the timeline, and only use what we need. But we are mandated to do this as it makes it easier and faster for the audio mix to deal with. Often, what the editor wants and what is best for a smooth post solution isn’t the same thing, so they might have to just deal with putting in all the audio tracks. That’s part of editing. Sorry, I get snarky when editors go “I want to work this way,” instead of the way that makes post smooth.
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Ah, so timecoded scripts aren’t needed…just scripts/transcripts of the show. Right…
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We will have a bin with the show intro, and the tease and COMING UP templates.
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RIGHT! 145 is 29.97! DNx175 is for 23.98…so you can also use that.
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[Josh Aucker] “Do you edit all of the episodes with in the same AVID project? “
With this particular project, I didn’t edit it…but yes, there is one project per episode. I’m only the online guy. On other shows I do edit, we have one project per episode.
[Josh Aucker] “But if you created a new project per episode, you could use MDV to transfer files to other drives pretty quick as well. “
good to know!
[Josh Aucker] “Just wanted to get your input on why you like this workflow more than creating a new project per episode.”
I do both. One project per episode, and…when I edit solo projects…organize the media this way on the Finder level. In a shared editing environment, we can’t really do that.
[Josh Aucker] “I am in the position where I am constantly reusing footage from other videos because we have consistent work from several clients for commercials. And I am debating whether to take a day to go through our 40+ drives and organize the media by project or just keep doing what I am doing. “
If you use the same footage on multiple episodes, which I often do as well…then you can’t do the finder level organization. You can, for media specific to that show, but there will be too much shared media to really do this.
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What you are describing attempting to do isn’t closed captioning….that’s subtitling. And that will not meet the spec for PBS. Closed Captioning is a file that is embedded into the output, and you don’t see the text unless you activate that option on your television.
So yes, you’ll have to hire a company to do this. The trick is that you need to supply them with a timecoded script of the show. That is, a fully accurate script, with timecode on it every minute or two minutes indicating where in the project that wording happens. You give them a QT movie with window burn timecode, and a timecoded script, and they will produce the closed caption file.
Now you need to check the PBS spec sheet to see if they want just that file, or if they want a Quicktime or MXF file with that CC embedded. If the latter is the case, you’ll need to take it to a post facility that provides that service.
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