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The Filmmaker’s Guide to Final Cut Pro Workfl ow<br />
The “normal” workfl ow is much closer to the older conventional workfl ow. In this case, the sound<br />
is mixed as it is edited. At key points, a temp dub is preformed and screened until everyone in the<br />
decision loop is in agreement that the project is ready for the fi nal dub.<br />
The Final Dub<br />
Figure 7.10 shows a mixing room. Most mixing facilities will want to start from scratch. As always,<br />
check with them as to their needs, but most likely they will want you to strip out all of your levels<br />
and fi lters so that they can hear just what they have to work with.<br />
Figure 7.10 The main mix room at Juniper Post. A large system like this often uses several Pro Tools<br />
systems locked together. An advantage of using Pro Tools is being able to take the project to almost<br />
any professional facility. Photo by Jeff Merrit<br />
Make a backup of the Pro Tools project so that if you need to get beck to your temp dub you can.<br />
Then, select the gain display for each track, select all, and press delete. Remove any pan or mute<br />
automation the same way. Then remove all mixing fi lters.<br />
Few mixing facilities use QuickTime for video playback. They want to keep all of the computer<br />
resources available to Pro Tools. Normally, they use “machine control” where Pro Tools controls a videotape<br />
player and keeps it in sync with the Pro Tools session. If so, you will need to print your video to<br />
videotape in whatever format they use. Also, fi nd out what time code format they prefer. They will want<br />
01:00:00:00 on the videotape to correspond to the beginning of the Pro Tools session. You will probably<br />
need to have a professional videotape dub made to ensure proper format and time code placement.<br />
If you are fi nishing on fi lm, the absolute best workfl ow is to make the fi rst answer print before the<br />
fi nal dub. Then, telecine this answer print to the proper videotape format with the proper time code.<br />
This will ensure the video reference is an exact match of any future prints. If there is a sync problem,<br />
it could be because of an editing error, a conforming error, or any number of potential other problems.<br />
Rather than worry about how it happened, simply fi x it here knowing that this is absolutely the<br />
accurate picture.<br />
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