


I came away from that experience with enough knowledge to help co-author the CBC’s Workflow Best Practices Manual. I can tell you from experience, recording, editing and mixing in Media Composer is NOT a lot like Pro Tools but at least we were all working from the same ISIS servers, using the Interplay software as our portal to each other.

Video Editors are frame-based editors their systems are performing much more complex calculations than ours they each have different operational skill levels and ways of working. I had not, however, used Media Composer prior to the run-up to the Games.Ī month of operating Avid’s Media Composer gave me more insight into the editorial process than all the prior years of dealing with editors. We’d all be working on Media Composer, including me, an audio post-production operator who was seconded due to my comfort level with nonlinear editing stations. This meant, rather than ship machines and personnel en masse to Italy for CBC’s broadcast coverage, the offline technicians would instead be situated on the tenth floor of the Toronto broadcast centre. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had decided that the production for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy was to be a file-based workflow. Backgroundīack in early 2006, I was given a gift that has kept on giving to this day: I was trained for 3 days on AVID Media Composer. If you have ever had issues with AAFs from video editors, then you will want to share this with them. In this article post-production specialist Damian Kearns shared his advice on the best way to export a Pro Tools friendly AAF from Avid Media Composer.
