Hello all,
I am new to Avid after 10+ years on FCP, so please forgive what may seem like very basic questions.
I am working on a show that shoots in multiple formats: Canon C300, 5D, and GoPro. All of these cameras at times will be synced to dialogue, and will need to be aligned according to time of day. The C300s and the 5Ds will rely on a wireless timecode feed that has been quite reliable in the past (Zaxcom IFB100 > ERX2), and the GoPros will be synced through a smart slate on set. The media will all live on a Terrablock 24D, and be accessed by up to 10 editors, AEs, and story producers at once. We'll be using MC 7.
In the interest of efficiency, I'm curious what experienced Avid users would recommend for offline/online handling of media. The most likely online scenario is that we will have a Symphony also connected to the Terrablock, and finish everything there. Last season of this show, on FCP7, we simply transcoded every last second of material twice -- once to ProRes Proxy, and once to ProRes 422. With identical file names, we switched out the drive once the show was locked, re-linked to the full ProRes, and we were done. While simple, this was also a very wasteful method (as far as storage space is concerned). I am wondering whether it's possible to import all the media from the various sources to DNx 36, edit at that resolution, then re-import only the portions of the media that are ultimately used (in FCP, this would have been equivalent to media managing the project, and re-ingesting the media at a new resolution). I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about when I say I'd love to avoid fully transcoding an hour long GoPro clip to 115 if only 7 seconds of it are used!
Any thoughts and tips would be much appreciated.
Thanks