Hi,

I'm coming back to Avid after a few years of being on Premiere Pro and I'm looking for advice on the best way to translate reframing and respeeds to the DI house, as I see there is a few different ways to do it. My main concern here is giving the DI house something that would be standard for theatrical/episodic workflows and not a hack that can't be translated.

Basic workflow: 4K raw footage (3840x2160 but framed for 3840x1920) is transcoded to dnx115 media by dailies house, reformating to 1920x1080 and applying a crop to desired 2.00 aspect framing. 

1. If I wanted to do creative reframing, such as 15% push, what effect would I use so ensure these changes would be picked up by the DI house from the edit I send them? Frameflex seems like the most intuitive to me, but that seems like it is more for if I was receiving the full rez media and needing to reformat to 1920x1080 myself rather than for creative reframing. (I understand what I am doing will be degrading the image in the Avid - that is fine)

2. Similarly, what effect should I be using for static and dynamic respeeds that have the best chance of being interpreted by the DI house? 

I hope to run some tests once we have everyone on board for the project, but wanted to get ahead of this. I seem to remember there being issues with this previously, such as respeed information being carried over but being interpreted as linear despite being set differently in the avid.

Thanks,

T

Tim I'd speak to the finishing house. It depends on what system they use and they will know what they prefer.

Its UHD footage you are working from not 4K for clarity. (I know the world uses 4K as a generic title but its unhelpful when 4K is 4096 and UHD is 3840)

I think you will find frameflex to be the best solution re sizing.

Hi Pat,

Thanks for the reply. There's no finishing house assigned currently, so that is why I'm reaching out here to get some info. RE 4K/UHD, yes you are correct. My apologies for being inconsistent in my wording. I'll try frameflex to creatively reframe shots and run a test to see if that works

Thanks,

T