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.
