I've been trying to figure this one out for years. I have tapes with camera A and camera B footage all with the same timecode. If I digitize all of the shots I need from camera A is there a way to copy the bin contents to another bin and then batch digitize that bin with the footage from the camera B tape? When I've tried it the camera A footage is wiped out because AVID thinks I'm trying to batch the footage I've already digitized.
Any suggestions?
Re: Batch Digitize by John Cuevas on May 16, 2008 at 3:49:41 pm
There may be another better way, but this works for me.
Open up the digitize tool. Create Tape A & Tape B. Now log all the shots for tape A, but don't digitize. Highlight all the clips and Cntl-d. Take these new clips into a new bin and close first bin.
Highlight all the clips in new bin. From the "clip" pulldown on top, hit "modify" and then pulldown "set source". Change the source to tape B. Avid will give a few warnings, hit yes.
Re: Batch Digitize by Bobby Calautti on May 16, 2008 at 6:39:44 pm
Sounds like that workflow works. I just do not know why you would log clips from Tape A, and capture media from those logged clips off of Tape B. Why not just log Tape B to begin with?
Re: Batch Digitize by John Cuevas on May 16, 2008 at 7:04:45 pm
Can't answer for him, but for me it's because I'm editing a multi-camera shoot and want to have the corresponding clips from both cameras.
Depending on the shoot, it can be time-consuming to have to log everything twice. Really gets takes a ton of time, say when you have to digitize 6 shows of footage---so only having to log once saves a bunch of time.
Re: Batch Digitize by Terence Curren on May 17, 2008 at 3:15:13 pm
After logging the "A" camera, just copy the slips to another bin and first unlink them (CTRL [PC] CMD [MAC] + Shift and the "relink" file menu will change to "unlink"), then select them all and choose "modify" and give them the "B" camera tape name. Batch capture away.
