Hi all,

About to cut some spots shot on the Phantom HD camera and footage will be coming to me as TIFF sequences. Gonna cut at  DNxHD185 but there is a chance that TIFFs might be conformed elsewhere for a grade. How can I import these sequences and create a usable EDL afterwards? It is it a case of manually modifying each master clip, adding tape names referring to the source files?

Thanks in advance,

Ollie

Hi Ollie,

           We've just finished a promo using super-slomo footage for a ballet company - images looked stunning. Did a 10:1 sd offline after importing the tiff sequences. We had to convert the raw files for import into avid using a utility called 'Phantom Cine Viewer', you can get it at

http://www.visionresearch.com/index.cfm?sector=htm/app&page=software&do=agreetoterms&sid=22 

For the online, my symphony guy had to convert the files as well, but used another utility (can't remember the name, sorry!) to resize the files from 2k to HD. I suggest you contact Richard at Pirate on 020 8930 5000, also check  http://www.pirate.co.uk/en/node/424 for any more questions you might have regards workflow.

HTH

Bill

I forgot to add, hold onto your converted files if you can - that's the ones you've converted from the raw camera files - as the grade people would want to import from them also, keeping your file naming conventions and so on. I'll try to find out what the utility was my folks used in our symphony suite and get back to you.

best

Bill

Thanks Bill. Yes I'm already sorted on the conversion process. it's being done on Cine Viewer by a post hose and we're acquiring at 1080 to avoid the resize step. Would be great to hear how they got TIFF info into the EDL for online.

 The tiffs are obviously imported as sequences which are then seen as source clips - they'll have their own timecode and unique file names. If the grade house keeps the same naming conventions as you, then it should be a case of handing over an edl, or giving them your final avid sequence. Worked great handing the fine cut bin over from an adrenaline to a symphony nitris for a final grade (the tiffs had already been imported into the nitris prior to getting the final sequence.)

HTH

Bill

Thanks Bill. I did think though that If I'm making a conventional CMX 3600 EDL, for use on a non-avid platform, I'd need to set 'tape names', referring to the source files,  manually using the modify command to ensure the edl pointed to the right clips.

IIRC, you cannot assign tapenames to imported clips. But I'd like to stand corrected.

Yes you can. Just modify the clip. Select Set Source, add a tape with the same name as the filename, and press ok past all the warnings. Would would be great is if you could automatically map the UNC path to a tape name, very useful for DI workflows that still like lovely old CMXs.