Handles in FilmScribe

[Igor Ridanovic]

Michael, how do you setup handles in FilmScribe when creating XML?

[MichaelP]

We will be adding the handles/tolerance feature to the next set of XML's we offer. Right now the handles need to be added in the receiving application.

Michael

[Igor Ridanovic]

I modified the xls template to add handles while translating XML in Xtrans. It's not the most flexible approach but it is accurate.

[Christoffer Glans]

I get an error each time I try to convert the Filmscribe XML to a Redcine XML. Does this has anything to do with it? Everything works great until I try and merge the FS_scan_REDCINE file with the Filmscribe XML list...

[MichaelP]

The Avid FilmScribe XML to REDCINE assumes that the ALE was created with an ALE from the original REDCINE as well as the R3D paths not changing their location during the post process. Avid generates the metadata given from the start and does not re-index the R3D directories for those changes.

CineXML creates a re-indexed XML pull list for REDCINE. I was able to generate a REDCINE XML with the version that will go live in a week or so, but if your R3D files moved, it will not conform.

Michael

[Christoffer Glans]

I don't have CineXML and I need a PC only workflow, no mac involved.
I followed the entire workflow on the Avid site and I didn't change any locations of the files. Everything is done precisely as told and Xtrans doesn't work.

Also, I really think the workflow on the Avid site is too many steps and would be much more simple if I could use metacheater.

I will probably have to edit on FCP instead and that will be a pain when my knowledge is in Avid. Things to come are of no use to me as I need something that works now.
I need to demonstrate the workflow from r3d - edited timeline in dpx format.
If that isn't possible with the tools avalible, then why does the timeline on the Avid website say so?

I need a solution for the things I have, not things to come, not updates later (things is also that whenever you go into a production you lock the current software and don't do updates that screw around with everything) I'd rather not update something trying to fix something that I don't even know is going to work, just to find out that it screws something else up.

I have, Avid Media Composer 3, Redcine, Xtrans, Metacheater, Filmscribe 3.0.5, EDL manager.

With those tools and red 16 template, new XML's for filmscribe, how do I go from r3d to dpx? I need to show them the workflow, not just say that it works, they don't believe me (due to horror stories about previous Red One movies edited on Avid)

[Jörgen Persson]

I don't have CineXML and I need a PC only workflow, no mac involved.
I followed the entire workflow on the Avid site and I didn't change any locations of the files. Everything is done precisely as told and Xtrans doesn't work.

Also, I really think the workflow on the Avid site is too many steps and would be much more simple if I could use metacheater.

I will probably have to edit on FCP instead and that will be a pain when my knowledge is in Avid. Things to come are of no use to me as I need something that works now.
I need to demonstrate the workflow from r3d - edited timeline in dpx format.
If that isn't possible with the tools avalible, then why does the timeline on the Avid website say so?

I need a solution for the things I have, not things to come, not updates later (things is also that whenever you go into a production you lock the current software and don't do updates that screw around with everything) I'd rather not update something trying to fix something that I don't even know is going to work, just to find out that it screws something else up.

I have, Avid Media Composer 3, Redcine, Xtrans, Metacheater, Filmscribe 3.0.5, EDL manager.

With those tools and red 16 template, new XML's for filmscribe, how do I go from r3d to dpx? I need to show them the workflow, not just say that it works, they don't believe me (due to horror stories about previous Red One movies edited on Avid)

You want to edit on Avid. Excellent choice.
I have edited numerous projects on Avid and they all ended up as DPX except one. I have music video in the works which will also end up as a bunch of folders with DPX sequences.

You say you want 2k DPX in the end.
But where will those DPX sequences go for online/conform/colorgrading?
You haven't answered what tool you will be finishing on.

I can give you a demo from A to Z (or Ö if you want it in Swedish) if you want to. I am happy to help you offlist instead of trying to follow four different threads on Reduser. Click my name and send a PM. I don't bite.

[MichaelP]

CineXML is available on Windows Vista....

Michael