Avid Work Flow

Fliques Osman

Fliques Osman

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Hey guys,

I'm new to Avid. I've been using Adobe Products since I started. And I'm looking to get a job at any of the small production houses in my area. Almost ALL of the production houses I called used Avid and Nuke (2 or 3 used FCP & Shake). Therefore, I'm currently learning Avid and Nuke, as I build up my portfolio. My dilemma is that since I've been using Adobe products, I' haven't faced any issues with integration, since Adobe products are very streamlined. With Adobe my work flow was as flows:

Edit in PPro -> Export to After Effects, with out rendering -> Do the VFX-> Export back to PPro un-rendered -> Export audio to Adobe Audition 3 -> Do Foley and ADR -> Export audio back to PPro, Lock Picture -> Export to Encore -> Burn to DVD.


I'v been taking online classes, but none of them go indepth concerning workflow. Also, I haven't found any documentation for Avid's workflow. I was wondering if you guys could help with the following:

Edit in Avid MC -> Export uncompressed to Nuke -> Do the VFX -> Export back to Avid MC un-rendered -> Export to Pro Tools (good integration with Avid) -> Export to DVD authoring.

If you guys could share your work flow, or give any advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Manymoosh
 
The great thing about working on an Avid is that it supports many types of workflows. The workflow that you mention would certainly work, although I think you'd want to render your footage in Nuke before re-importing to the Avid.

I've recently cut a bunch of High Definition projects on my home Avid express Pro system. I'd do my cuts in DV, offline resolution, and then send the final sequences to a post house with an Avid Nitris HD setup. They'd auto-digitize the clips used in the sequence, colortime them on their $30,000 HD monitor and lay it off to Sony HD tape. This type of workflow is fairly common in the television industry in Los Angeles.

While I've heard of FCP people having big problems with using an offline to online type of workflow, Avid systems execute it flawlessly. All of your nested and subnested sequences, and all of your motion effects and motion ramps will upres perfectly.
 
avid works really using quicktime reference files

so you have all your captured media in avid, do edits, etc whatnot, then say you want to do add some vfx element in nuke. export from avid using quicktime reference file(here you are not exporting an actual media file, you are exporting a link to the meda files in avid, that way you dont have to render out whole new media and its really quick. do your stuff in nuke, then you render in nuke, for HD you render into one of avids DNxHD codecs and import that to avid, when you render out from nuke with DNxHD, then import into avid, it wont actually be creating a new file from what you rendered out from NUKE, but it will actually be copying the DNxHD clip into avid's media database. same kinda workflow for audio, etc. when you are ready to encode for DVD, once again export with a quicktime reference file.

the current version of media composer (2.8) can only handle uncompressed SD, not HD, but the new version (3.0) that comes out in june will work natively with uncompressed HD no one knows yet if there will be any major changes to the workflow, cant tell until i got it in my hands
 
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