User Manual

24 Conforming and Transferring Projects
This chapter contains information about conforming and transferring projects.
• Understanding Conforming
• Preparations for Conforming
• Conforming Workflow
• Conforming Sequences with Color Correction
• Transferring Project and Media Files Between Avid Editing Systems
Understanding Conforming
You can move projects and media from one Avid editing system to another and preserve your
edits and effects. In a typical offline-to-online workflow, you create a program on one Avid
editing system — choosing the footage, making edits, adding effects — and then transfer your
program to another Avid system for final finishing.
Re-creation of an offline project on an online system is called conforming, and Avid’s solution is
called Total Conform. Finishing tasks often include recapturing media in a final resolution,
making color corrections, adjusting effects, and outputting the final master.
If you use the same media for offline and online editing, you can access the media in several
ways. For example, you can share media in an Avid shared storage environment, or transfer
removable drives from one system to another. Your clips and sequences automatically link to the
media, and you can complete the final finishing.
Compatibility Between Versions
If you are moving from one Avid editing application to another in the current release, or from a
product in a previous release to a product in the current release, you can move project files and
media without losing any of your work. You might need to promote some effects so that they are
compatible with the current release. For more information, see “Promoting and Demoting
Existing Effects in Sequences” in the Help.
However, when you move projects from a product in the current release to a product in a
previous release, some effects might not appear, or might appear as unknown effects.