Return-Path: Received: from atl4mhob11.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.49] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5161143 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:22:55 +0200 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.71.210]) by atl4mhob11.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6VGYPCJ029914 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:34:25 -0400 Received: (qmail 25834 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jul 2013 16:34:25 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 75.51.169.132 X-Authenticated-UID: torno@sydefxink.com Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.7?) (torno@sydefxink.com@75.51.169.132) by 0 with ESMTPA; 31 Jul 2013 16:34:24 -0000 Subject: Avid to AE workflow HELP! From: David Torno Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B329) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:34:22 -0700 To: AE-List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Got a question for the collective mind here. I have been dealing with a numb= er of issues recently with new projects coming through our doors. I don't re= member this being such a headache, but I also didn't deal with it much in th= e past though. Here's what I'm dealing with... Project VFX shots and/or project edits are coming from outside Avid editing h= ouse. Being that Avid apparently does not export XML of a timeline, we have been g= iven EDL (in various forms) and/or AAF's. EDL caused the most issues as it would not reconnect or see any media period= . Nor create any remotely useable timeline in Avid or Premiere on our end. A= AF proved to be a nice direct import to AE via Autoduck. Great! I thought. Upon viewing the newly created AE timeline, I found that an edit exists. It s= eems to have I/O points set on each layer properly and everything is there, b= ut I noticed that every single layer was linked to a series of source footag= e clips all named "file.mov". Well obviously this is useless for me to recon= nect raw media to as I have no way of knowing what the source clip name is. After some back and forth of explaining that I need the media clip names to b= e the same as the SOURCE media (ie: like how every single other NLE does it)= so I can essentially online the key VFX shots to the raw media so we can do= our job. I have now been given an AAF that has a series of folders with it c= ontaining MXF files and such. Upon opening that AAF I get nearly everything l= ike it should be except the names again. This time the names contain the fir= st 9 characters of the source clip followed by random unrelated characters. T= hese are RED clip names by the way, so they start A002_C009_... The remainin= g characters being the most important of course due to there being multiple c= lips that can start with "A002_C009". I'm finding out that Avid does it's own media conversions/alterations (MXF) m= iddleman baloney to make Avid life easy or something, which is causing issue= s with communicating to the outside world? So without going into a fit about Avid's non logical system, I wanted to kno= w what I am missing in this workflow. How is anyone else taking Avid edits i= nto AE cleanly and retaining source media clip names? I think that covers it= . I'm not happy with having to manually reconnect clips and I know this can'= t be the right way. David Torno Visual Effects Artist & Supervisor http://www.ghosttownmedia.com O: 213.739.2290 C: 818.391.6060 --------------------- http://www.sydefxink.com http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com http://mactex.blogspot.com "The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field=