Hi there,
Can someone confirm whether my Final Cut Pro 7 workflow is on the right path? I've been reading the FCP manual (and a 3rd party book) but neither address my situation specifically.
Photography was completed about a month ago, and this is the media I am dealing with:
Video:
- Ninja 2 ProRes HQ (90% of the footage) (camera: Canon 5D mk3)
- CF card from 5D (10% of the footage) (camera: Canon 5D mk3)
Audio:
48kHz WAV files from professional sound mixer.
I'll be editing on a 2009 13" laptop MacBook Pro and I'm not confident that it can handle the ProResHQ files so I believe I need to do an off-line edit in ProResLT, and then switch back to HQ for final output.
Workflow:
1) Transcode ProResHQ to ProResLT in Compressor (maintain file names).
2) Transcode CF Card media to ProResLT in Compressor (maintain filenames).
3) Import ProResLT video into FCP (separate bins for each scene).
4) Import audio files in to FCP & sort into appropriate bins as ProRes LT video.
5) Sync production audio to video and MERGE CLIPS.
6) Use merged clips to edit the film.
7) When edit is complete, I'll take the LT files offline and then reconnect the media to the HQ footage for final output.
I'm still pretty blurry on how to interface with a Sound Designer and Composer, so for now, I want to make sure I don't do anything that breaks the basic conventions used by those departments.
I'm afraid to jump into the edit because I don't want to use a flawed approach that I pay for several months down the road.
Thanks for your help.
Thomas
Can someone confirm whether my Final Cut Pro 7 workflow is on the right path? I've been reading the FCP manual (and a 3rd party book) but neither address my situation specifically.
Photography was completed about a month ago, and this is the media I am dealing with:
Video:
- Ninja 2 ProRes HQ (90% of the footage) (camera: Canon 5D mk3)
- CF card from 5D (10% of the footage) (camera: Canon 5D mk3)
Audio:
48kHz WAV files from professional sound mixer.
I'll be editing on a 2009 13" laptop MacBook Pro and I'm not confident that it can handle the ProResHQ files so I believe I need to do an off-line edit in ProResLT, and then switch back to HQ for final output.
Workflow:
1) Transcode ProResHQ to ProResLT in Compressor (maintain file names).
2) Transcode CF Card media to ProResLT in Compressor (maintain filenames).
3) Import ProResLT video into FCP (separate bins for each scene).
4) Import audio files in to FCP & sort into appropriate bins as ProRes LT video.
5) Sync production audio to video and MERGE CLIPS.
6) Use merged clips to edit the film.
7) When edit is complete, I'll take the LT files offline and then reconnect the media to the HQ footage for final output.
I'm still pretty blurry on how to interface with a Sound Designer and Composer, so for now, I want to make sure I don't do anything that breaks the basic conventions used by those departments.
I'm afraid to jump into the edit because I don't want to use a flawed approach that I pay for several months down the road.
Thanks for your help.
Thomas