Hello
I work in a post TV enviroment and we recently switched from FCP to MC. We have 4 stations in our department and many more throughout the company. We are on ISIS and Interplay. We are on the latets versions of all software.
We do a lot of green screen work and have many L3's. In my particular show(I work on a 20 episode long form doc)I have built over 50 green screens and keep them ina particular bin. I have also created over 50 L3's in AE which I have imported and keep in a particular bin.
To save time we have simply copied and pasted bins that are used over and over, i.e. interviews, broll, etc. into each project(101-120) and then populated them with the new material for that particular show. We have also copied and pasted the bins that contain the keys for the green screens and the L3's from the previous episode into the new one, i.e. 108 bins into 109, so that we always have the most current keys and L3's as the shows expand and add new guests and repeat others. We do the copy/past at the finder level. We do not have any problems with this type of workflow but I have had people suggest to me that this is not the proper way to go about it. We have also been told NOT to open bins from another project so...
I would like comments on whether or not anyone else is doing episodic TV and what your workflow is and any comments on how we are coing things.
I should also mention that we are offlining with H264 then going through a restore(uprez) process to DNX145.
TIA
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