
(With the 1D and 7D, it is) The 30p footage from the 5D will not re-link since the frame count is different at that fps rate. But we want 24p footage anyway, and not just for syncing purposes during online re-link. Converting 30p footage to 24p with Twixtor will allow those exported clips to be properly linked to the EDL from Avid, within one frame. (Will only work if editorial sees each clip as starting at 00:00:00:00) This will allow you to re-link to the original source footage, assuming it’s 24p.

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(The recent announcements about Avid’s new features in the upcoming version 5.0 will offer dramatically different options. New AMA support will allow you to work with DSLR footage and other Quicktime files in a similar fashion to how they are handled by Premiere and Final Cut. These new workflow options will be further examined in a separate post once the new version is publicly released) While Avid is capable of doing online quality work, it is most popular as an offline editing program. Âįor the Navy Seal movie, I developed a workflow that allows us to intercut the 30p footage from the Canon 5D with 24p footage that we shot on film. This generates EDL sequences that can be accurately re-linked to 30p footage after it has been processed to 24p in a motion compensating frame rate conversion. This works because of the way that Avid generates new DNxHD intermediate files of your media upon import. These new files match the project frame rate of 24p, by dropping the extra frames from the original 30p MOV files. This is usable for editorial, and allows you to generate a proper 24p EDL. Premiere Pro CS4 can re-link to existing tapeless media from an EDL, by frame counting based on EDL time code.

Editing DSLR Footage in Avid Posted by Mike McCarthy on April 24th, 2010 filed in Tips & Tricks, Workflow IdeasĪvid Media Composer works on a very different paradigm than either Premiere or Final Cut. This makes the application more stable than its competitors on larger projects with lots of source footage, but involves more steps in the workflow to get your final product.
