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Old March 20th, 2012, 09:22 PM   #1
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Please Suggest Shot Logging Workflow: Media Composer

Can you AVID editors out there please explain your shot logging workflow for file-based media?

I want to go through about 200 hours of documentary footage and watch through and log the shots with meta data and into subclips, what is the best procedure to do this?

Thanks very much for your time.
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Old March 21st, 2012, 02:38 PM   #2
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Re: Please Suggest Shot Logging Workflow: Media Composer

Chris:

Here is one flaw I discovered in my logging process. Typically, I will import one card's worth of media into a single bin in the project: "Race Day EX-3 Card 1" or similar. I get a bunch of numbered mxf files.

Then, I have been looking at each clip and giving it a name: "Blue car smokes out at strip" or the like.

Here's the flaw: when I went back after a computer crash to redig some of the media, AVID can't automatically find it...because the name was changed. Back in the old days, we would log tape with the pencil icon, and then digitize. This made for easier redigitizing or up-rezzing later.

There may be a workaround for this, but none of my AVID buddies has found one yet. So one suggestion: as you log the clips and give them descriptive names, keep the original mxf number at the end of the clip name so you can manually redig the media later if you have to.
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Old March 22nd, 2012, 10:19 AM   #3
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Re: Please Suggest Shot Logging Workflow: Media Composer

Instead of renaming the clips, you could use text view. Then use the Bin Column Selection to activate the Ancillary Data column, and put your clip description there.
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