V6 User Manual 1.00.book - Studio General

keeps track of the proper naming, metadata, etc… Once the method is properly defined and working, the rulesshould then be communicated to all people involved in a given project, once and for all.Philosophical PointReconforming to New Media always involves some delicate & dirty experimentations in the Relink to New Mediadialog. This usually requires comparisons of Clip information in Clip Properties and Media information in PyramixMedia Manager. Once some kind of correspondence in the naming structure can be found, then all of a suddenthe whole process becomes incredibly simple, the entire TimeLine becomes populated by happy green clips andan amazing feeling of personal achievement is yours forever.The following example could and should be interpreted at will to match your specific needs and requirementsProcedure• Import the OMF from the Avid (even without Avid media, it is not required)• Mount the original Multitrack session media• Select Project > Reconform > Relink to New Media• Now the hard part: try to find, in the Clips imported from the OMF, any matching information (in ClipProperties) that can also be found in the original media properties• For instance, you may find that the Clip Names match the Original Media File Names, but you may verywell find that the Clip Names are in fact Scene & Takes and should rather match the Original Media Scene& Take, etc…(OMF is at this better than CMX since it can include information such as Clip Names, Metadata, TimeCodes, etc…)It finally all depends on how the original media has been documented while recording (BWF metadata) and howthe Video Editor and Media “Ingester” have documented the Media and Clips in the Avid.Again, as already stated above, there are no rules and it may change from user to user, project to project.Suggested Procedure for Managing a Workflow• Record the Original Media in BWF with TimeCode and name them Take1, Take2, Take3, etc… or any othername that can easily be understood and searched.• Create a BWF 16 bits Stereo Render of your Multitrack recording files WITH THE SAME NAME as the original.• Import these files into the Avid and make sure all clips created out of these Media keep the Media Name orFile Name.• Export an OMF out of the video edit and import it back in Pyramix (Even without media).• You should then be able to match the OMF Clip Name to the Original Media File Name, or at least, if theVideo Editor messed up with the Clip Names, the OMF Media Names with the Original Media Name or FileName.• - Once the Relink procedure has been successfully achieved, you should have all your Clips referencingthe Original Media’s first track(s).• - Then go to Tracks > Extend, select all tracks you want to extend and choose Auto-Detect. This shouldextend all your clips according to the number of tracks of your original multitrack recording.SummaryIf something goes wrong with Reconform (apart from SD2 files not recognized, Please see: File & Project Interchangewith Apple Macintosh on page 308) please look for some sort of timing or wording mismatch betweenClips and Media and feel free to try several different settings in the Relink to New Media Dialog, till you find THEONE that matches your topology.Digitizing a Tape with Discontinuous TimeCodePyramix can automatically record a whole tape where the TimeCode is not continuous:Applications : Digitizing a Tape with Discontinuous TimeCode 19 - 346