Re: @A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher

Thus....

the battle between working native and transcoding.

One of the lesser discussed issues of working native is that lots of those "optimized for acquisition codecs" is that they don't play well when it comes to the media consolidation phase. The GOP based media formats don't play well with media truncation.

So rather than being an offline online world, what I'd like to work on is a parallel workflow.

Start cutting natively while at the same time generating consolidation and SAN/workgroup/full fidelity media sets. Then simply reconnect when the alternates are ready.

Prelude and AME should help with this....but with camera acquisition media names being arcane and based many times on atomized folder structures, rather than muxed files, relinking will still probably quite challenging.

With Avid always touting their database architecture as a workflow asset, I too am more surprised by the difficulty that Walter ran into. My assumption would likely have been the same as his.

If anyone does start working the parallel route or wants to discuss it more...drop me a line. This would be very valuable to explore.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX