Graduate (881KB) MFA Narrative UHD Post Production Workflow
1. Sony FX6 or Blackmagic Pocket 6K workflow and how to setup the AVID Media Composer Project - Linking to video files and transcoding
(Beginner Users) Sony FX6 Quick Start Guide Recommended Workflow
RTF Blackmagic Pocket 6K Cinema Camera - and AVID Post Production Workflow
2. IMPORT THE AUDIO!!! DON'T LINK AND TRANSCODE AUDIO recorded on the 744T or 702T into AVID projects. Use the >File>Import commands.
See worksheet AVID - Importing Audio
3. Subclip each slated take of the video clips and audio clips. Subclip in point is on the slate before clap and out point is at the end of the take.
See Worksheet
4. "Autosync" (AVID) to create Synced dailies of audio and video
See worksheet
Or you can use syncing with waveform analysis if you have in camera audio
AVID - Using Audio Waveforms to Sync Double System Audio
Or if you have used the Smart slate then use the AVID sync with timecode wiki
AVID - Syncing Video and Audio With Matching Timecode
5. Check each synced clip to ensure sync
6. Edit your footage in the timeline until you are absolutely to the point were you are picture locked. Do not spend time making titles or credits because they will need to be redone in the online. Just make place holders at exact durations the titles will be.
7. Organzine your audio tracks in your timeline to prepare for your sound mix Organizing Audio Tracks for A Sound Mix -
8. Export an .aaf AND Quicktime file for sound editor (not the mixer) to use in ProTools.
See worksheets How to Export .aaf and Quicktime to ProTools
9. Open the .aaf and QuickTime into a ProTools Project
Check the sync of the ProTools audio tracks with imported Quicktime movie and begin sound editing
10. Sound Editor (or you) will edit the sound in ProTools until you all lock sound design.
11. Make a copy of the ProTools session to take to sound mixer (or YOU) to do your final mix in the studio.
How to make a copy of the ProTools session
Once session is saved as a copy place that folder on the temp_transfer server or hard drive to move to the sound mixing studios
12. Mix your session with the assigned Post-Production Sound Mixer (or YOU) and export a stereo sound file that will be added into the AVID Project
13. When Picture Locked - No more Picture Editing Required - Relink your footage to the Camera Originals
AVID – How To Relink to your Original Camera Footage
14. Color correct the video clips. Don't move or do any tweaking on video clips in the online sequence because you could slip sync.
How to Use Color Correction Tools in AVID
15. How to port over your AVID project to Davinci Resolve - Resolve is a much more complicated workflow than color correction in AVID FYI!!
How to export an .aaf and Quicktime to Resolve
16. How to Setup your Project in DaVinci Resolve
17. How to
Export Your Project Back to AVID from Resolve
18. Export Final Quicktime for Screening
see AVID - Final Screening QuickTime Export
20. Backup Media to LTO tape (Optional) contact Tech Staff
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