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A user is struggling with the manual process of preparing Archive exports in Avid, which takes a lot of time due to clips being scattered across different layers. They are looking for a more efficient way to handle this workflow.
Hey everyone, hope you’re having a good weekend! I’ve just taken over as AE on a 3 x 45 minute series that’s been going for 9 months. For each export we’re doing 3 versions - a normal export; a split track version for the composer; and the one that’s killing me, an Archive export with burnt-in source clip names and their respective source TCs for both video and audio clips (of Archive). The real pain is that all the Archive - unsurprisingly, and despite everyone’s best efforts - is scattered across different layers on the V and A tracks. Each export, I have to manually pull all these clips onto their own layers so the data-burn in can just read those layers and generate their respective source names and source TCs. Is there an easier way to do this that I’m missing? I feel there must be something I’ve blatantly not thought of - the last export took me nearly 3 hours to prep the timeline. It’s a good mix of Archive and new footage too, so I can’t even reverse the process and just move the non-Archive stuff. Thanks in advance, Garry