AVID EDITING NOTES
REDIGITIZING & ONLINING
REDIGIZING ORIGINAL MASTER CLIPS
Sometimes some media may have been deleted for storage space or a project may need to be put on one side for a period before editing resumes. In most cases, the original clips may well be digitized as they were logged. This means that if media is ever deleted, it is good practice to keep a copy of the original binds and clips; this does not take up much space and will save much time later.
If most of the material for a project needs to be redigitized, open the bins and batch digitize the master clips. If a sequence needs major re-editing, it is useful to discover exactly which master clips were used. This can be done easily by going into the bin containing the sequence, click on the fast menu and choose Set Bin Display. Now choose Show Reference Clips and click OK. The Bin will now fill with all the original master clips in that sequence and digitizing can begin.
REDIGIZING SEQUENCES (for onlining)
A program will be offlined and the online or finishing may be done on the same or different Avid. In this case, the only media needed will be just that required to play the sequence and no more. If redigitizing is to be done at 2:1 or 1:1 (uncompressed), storage space may be tight, so it’s best to only digitize what material is needed.
Before redigitzing a sequence, Duplicate the sequence (so there will be an original copy of it that will still link to the master clips).
First name the new sequence something like “Offline Final” and duplicate it to give me a new sequence called “Offline Final copy.01” Rename this new copy something like”Ready for High Res” and move this new sequence to a new bin and close the bin containing the original offline sequence
The First Method is to select the sequence in its bin, choose Batch Digitize and force the system to redigitize the material required for the sequence. Decide here if I’m going to keep the audio used for the offline. If a lot of mixing and balancing has been done, and particularly if much audio has been imported or digitized without timecode, then this is a good plan.
If the Offline was done on a different Avid, consider consolidating an audio-only subsequence of my offline and moving the audio clips to the online with an external harddrive.
Copy the media files into one of the OMFI MediaFiles on the finishing system at the Desktop level, then launch Avid. The media should link to the audio subsequence I brought from the offline.
If I’m on a Avid for the offline and I want to delete the low-resolution video media, then go ahead and do it. Open the Media Tool and display the master clips from my project. Select all the clips and press Delete. Take the next step slowly and Deselect the check boxes next to the entries “Delete xxx audio files?” so that when I press OK, I will only delete the video. If I do this wrong, I will have a lot of extra work. When done, close the Media Tool.
Next, move to the bin containing my new sequence and open the Digitize Tool. Choose the New Resolution, select the sequence, choose Batch Digitize and make sure that I leave “Digitize only those clips for which media is unavailable” selected. The system will now detect that audio media exists and only digitize new video. If I didn’t delete any original media, then no new media will be created as the system detects media that will link with the sequence and thinks that the job is finished (the resolution is ignored). If I deselect “Digitize only…”, new media will be created regardless, both audio and video.
During the digitizing process new clips will be created to go with the new media. If I have used an original clip called “djfdj” several times in the edit, then I’ll end up with new clips called “djfdj.new.01” and “djfdj.new.02” and so on.
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