Hi Knut,
I started to crank out a lengthy reply but it really comes down to one
fact: you're not working the project and don't have any of the
background information which would probably explain why a DS system is
being used for the offline. We all know DS does not play well with
others and the optimal workflow is often to not even attempt to get
information from DS to a transfer house, effects house or other people
working on the project. Not everybody has the ability to stick with the
optimal workflow and it obviously was not an option here. I'd cut the
guy some slack.
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John Heiser
Avid DS Editor
o2ideas
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Knut A. Helgeland
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:50 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: EDL's and Tape Sifting
At 13:39 -0400 01-09-05, Jason Morris wrote:
> I'm using a Nitris (version7.5) to do a SD offline edit that
>will later be turned into HD on another Nitris system. To
>complicate things, a company called Filmlook will be doing the color
>correction to all of the HD footage (before going to the final
>Nitris). To color correct the shots, they will be using EDL's from
>my system. Here are some issues that I am dealing with (and I'm
>hoping you guys will have some suggestions for me -- you always do
>and I appreciate it greatly):
The answer is to use Tony's advice to rename sources using the tape
library.
A personal vent: The DS is not a good place to do an offline. There
are no way out of the system except the arcane implementation of EDL,
contrary to almost any other NLE out there. I'll be terribly flamed
for this, but you'd be better off in any Media Composer build since
about version 5, or even in FCP, Premiere Pro or Vegas. Or just about
any other NLE out there. DS is not only the hardest system you can
imagine to get an accurate offline out of, it is also an inadequate
offline editing environment.
You have a Nitris system, you're doing an offline, another company is
doing CC, and yet another company with a Nitris is doing the online.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like total bollocks to me. The very idea
of the DS is (/was) to handle it all, and unless they're doing
DaVinci 8:8:8 color timing on the source tapes, you can do it all in
your own DS! Why do you use a $200K tool to do a job a $2K tool can
handle better?
Sorry.
Flame on, guys.
K
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Knut A. Helgeland
Toxic Design Studio
http://www.toxic.no
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