because often many users are confused: the different between conforming and reconforming.
the last is now a feature of N7. You change your edited project to update it to a newer cut version. that means, the changes and edits by reconforming are only with your project and the included clips and audio.
conforming means you add or replace matched audio files. the project changes aren’t edits and cuts, rather new referenced audio files to the existing clips. examples are replacing new mixed files in a project, pump up a dialog edit to the original field recordings / location sound (seperate boom and lavalier tracks), expand a edited music rough mix with the multi track recording etc… the meta data’s or the name structure in the audiofiles can be the matched icon.
this feature is a main feature in EDLtranslate. put into it EDLs by the film cutter, get the conformed track archive for Nuendo. it is very proofed by a lot of film dialog editors, recording engineers in classical music production and post production houses.
Well, if you drop your location recordings in “at origin”, then it is even more easier to conform within Nuendo.
And you have the extra takes available.
And whenever there are added scenes in one of the recuts, everything drops into place.
When you drop your location recordings into a Nuendo project, and select “at origin”, then the files snap to their BWAV Timestamp. So the day one recordings will start at one hour, the day two recordings will start at two hours, etc … (Or however they have organised it) All recordings from the different machines will line up under each other providing all the different channels, including the set mix.
With all the location recordings in one “Conform” project, you only have to load the edit EDL, and all will be conformed to the picture cut. And you will be able to search for alternative versions in the alternative takes, outtakes, etc …
sorry, I don’t understand. the tc if location sound can be 24h hours a day, so there is after twenty production days 20x f.e. an 11a.m. tc. In Nuendo this 20 different takes with the same tc (but different user bits or BWF Tape sign) spot to the same tc … or do I missunderstand you?
that means, this is not the ultimate solution, an one click solution, to conform the location sound for a whole film.
It seems this is the job for EDLtranslate.
Can you explain that further? Because I see his point:
If during production they shoot several days but have timcode reflect actual time of day, you could end up with several different takes/shots over several different days all reading 11:00:00:00. If you drop them in “at origin” wouldn’t they all line up at the same place?
In other words; how would Nuendo know what day it was recorded? Is it somewhere in BWF metadata (not TC)?
Yes, that is part of the Metadata. If not (Sometimes it is handled in different ways) then you can just drop the files in at timecode and then offset them for a day.
Matter of fact is that it is a procedure/protocol that is agreed upon before the shooting starts.
I have had many different kind of modus operandi.
Often they start each new day at a new hour. Day One = 1 hour / Day two = two hours / etc …
I haven’t come across a project that worked with “days” yet.
Not if you -as a dialog editor- need quick & easy access to alternative takes.
And really, the dropping in at origin takes no time at all.
It’s just a matter of loading all location recording files into Nuendo and drop them into a project.
Top of head.
Titan
Conformalizer
Ediload
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But no doubt that the suggested application is also a welcome addition. Most certainly for that price.
Thank for the list…Who knows once in a while we need the options…
For alternativ takes I use Media Bay. That works fine as long as there is sensible metadata (slates etc.) in the recordings. But if not…yes then I take it your workflow is a very good option.
So when a timeline gets really large (for a TV series of say 20 episodes) with many days of production, how does Nuendo handle the gazillion audio files?
pump up a dialog edit to the original field recordings / location sound (seperate boom and lavalier tracks), expand a edited music rough mix with the multi track recording etc… the meta data’s or the name structure in the audiofiles can be the matched icon.
PT and other software is able to do that at the moment. Not Nuendo.