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Chapter 59: Working with Field Recorders in Pro Tools 1353
Overview of Video and Fully Non-Linear
Workflows
The following describes an overview of the steps
that are necessary in these workflows:
1 Set up before shooting.
2 Shoot.
3 Digitize video in Avid video editing application
(video workflow only) or import digital video
files directly into Avid video editing application
(fully non-linear workflow only).
Following these steps ensures that timecode and
other metadata are preserved from the moment
shooting begins to the final delivery of source files
to the Pro Tools editor.
Setting Up Before Shooting
(Video and Fuly Non-Linear
Workflows)
Before shooting begins, the camera operator and
the production sound mixer should ensure the fol-
lowing:
• The field recorder’s audio output feeds the video
camera’s audio input.
• Both the field recorder and the video camera
should be locked to the same production time-
code.
Matching Tape Name to Sound Roll Metadata
for Video Shoots
Before loading the videotape into the video cam-
era, the camera operator physically labels the vid-
eotape with a unique name. The production sound
mixer must enter that exact name in the Tape
BEXT or iXML metadata field inside the Broad-
cast WAV file.
Matching Tape Name to Sound Roll Metadata
for Fully Non-Linear Shoots
After loading the digital video storage into the
camera, the camera operator gives it a unique
name. The production sound mixer must enter that
exact name in the Tape BEXT or iXML metadata
field inside the Broadcast WAV file.
Shooting (Video and Fuly Non-
Linear Workflows)
1 Shooting proceeds as follows:
• Camera begins rolling.
• One or more field recorders begin recording.
The production sound mixer has designated one
or two channels as a production sound mix,
which is a consolidation of one or more channels
in each multichannel recording.
2 During shooting, the following timecode infor-
mation is captured:
• The camera captures images to video or file em-
bedded with SMPTE timecode based on time of
day (or longitudinal timecode).
• One or more field recorders simultaneously
make multichannel recordings that are embed-
ded with SMPTE timecode based on time of day
(or longitudinal timecode).
After you import a file containing Tape meta-
data into Pro Tools, the metadata displays in
the Sound Roll field in Workspace browsers.
To ensure that metadata are preserved for
the Pro Tools editor, it is critical to enter the
Tape name character for character. For ex-
ample, if the metadata was T001 (with two
zeroes), enter T001 with two zeroes—not T01
with one zero or T0001 with three zeroes.