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| Got a question for the collective mind here. I have been dealing with a number of issues recently with new projects coming through our doors. I don't remember this being such a headache, but I also didn't deal with it much in the past though. Here's what I'm dealing with... Project VFX shots and/or project edits are coming from outside Avid editing house. Being that Avid apparently does not export XML of a timeline, we have been given 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. AAF 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 seems to have I/O points set on each layer properly and everything is there, but I noticed that every single layer was linked to a series of source footage clips all named "file.mov". Well obviously this is useless for me to reconnect 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 be 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 containing MXF files and such. Upon opening that AAF I get nearly everything like it should be except the names again. This time the names contain the first 9 characters of the source clip followed by random unrelated characters. These are RED clip names by the way, so they start A002_C009_... The remaining characters being the most important of course due to there being multiple clips that can start with "A002_C009". I'm finding out that Avid does it's own media conversions/alterations (MXF) middleman baloney to make Avid life easy or something, which is causing issues with communicating to the outside world? So without going into a fit about Avid's non logical system, I wanted to know what I am missing in this workflow. How is anyone else taking Avid edits into 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 |
