Digitizing a Videotape in the Avid Video Editing Application

(Video Workflow Only)

This phase of the workflow begins after the Avid editor receives the following components from the camera operator and the production sound mixer:

Videotape

Multichannel recordings

In a video workflow, the Avid editor digitizes the videotape to digital video and audio files in order to edit them. Before doing so, however, the Avid editor must name the tape.

To digitize a videotape to digital source files:

1 Load the videotape into the Avid system.

2 When prompted to name the videotape, enter the exact Tape name used by the camera operator and the production sound mixer.

To ensure that metadata are preserved for the Pro Tools editor, it is critical to enter the Tape name character for character. For example, if the metadata was T001 (with two zeroes), enter T001 with two zeroes—not T01 with one zero or T0001 with three zeroes.

3 Digitize the videotape loaded into the Avid.

4 When the digitize is complete, use the Avid video editing application to edit audio and video.

When you are finished editing, export the edited sequence as an AAF or OMF sequence so that it can be imported into Pro Tools.