conforming and archiving

[David Marte]

Hi–

I’m a discreet combustion Artist. And i’d heard alot about conforming, archiving ect…… what is it? i mean, i have a very basic idea of what it is but i would like to know more. please…………..

David Marte

[kalthans]

hi david,

conforming is basically the process of bringing the elements for a project together into some type of meaningful order from their raw form to match pre-existing timings of some sort.

in commercials it is usually taking the EDL (edit decision list) for an Avid or other offline edit system and redigitizing the media at higher resolution from DigiBeta, D5 or HDCAM which will be reassembled (usually semi-automatically) to match the editor’s cut.

in film it could mean taking the EDL or cut-list from the edit (again, usually avid) and linking it to film scans which have been saved as image sequences somewhere.

archving is pretty much anything you do to close out a job and mothball the elements in offline storage in some format that can be retrived later if needed. in discreet-speak this is usually done in an automated process to either DigiBeta, DTF or to a file on the network (which is just a big .tar file). these archives contain the clip media, the audio and the metadata for the media including edits and soft-effects.

for non-discreet systems the process is usually just culling out the junk (intermediate renders, duplicates, tests) and committing the remaining files to some type of bulk storage medium (DVD-R, tape drives, etc).

hope this helps

k

[David Marte]

thanks for answering the question.. 🙂

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