Leopard Films Workflow

Leopard was shooting three different productions in a time scale of 6 months, which meant planning the work flow and how it was going to run was key for production to run smoothly down the line. There were a lot of meetings discussing the work flow to establish if it was best to edit in native resolution or 15:1 My idea was to go for DNXHD36 as it gives a HD picture while taking up less space than native. The agreed work flow was to go from Native resolution to 15: 1 resolution then upon completion of the show. The final sequence would get relinked via AMA to replace the 15:1 media to Native resolution then transcode the final sequence to DNX 185 to be ready for online. This does two things: • Saves a lot of space on the Edit share (storage space) • Runs the media more smoothly on the Avid machines • Faster exports for viewings Just to note briefly Leopard is running 9 edit suites with an Edit share and a new archiving media solution called the Matrix Store to store the native rushes on to.