u/bromanager

Looking for some opinions on untangling a web. I'm working on a short film. The film was shot on 35mm and scanned to dpx. The lab created ProRes proxies that are clipped by take and labeled differently from the dpx file (for example, three takes that are on one dpx scan are split into A001,A002, A003 as prores proxies). The timecodes match the original dpx. Not exactly how I would have done it, but I havnet round tripped a lot of 35 scans. Normally I would make a prores proxy of the full dpx sequence and then sub-clip the proxy so that offlining and onlining is smooth.

Here's where the problem begins. Before I received the footage the director synced each scene and assembled a rough cut using these proxies. Thinking toward the future, we will want to online the edit back to the DPX for finishing, which becomes difficult since the proxies are labeled differently and are clipped from the DPX sequences.

My question is, what's the best strategy here to untangle this and set us up for success in finishing while preserving the work the director has done? Is there a way to round trip what has already been done or does the rough cut need to be rebuilt using full proxies of the dpx sequences, not the trimmed versions of what were already made?

Would love to hear some strategies!

Just drove past and it looked wild! I’m jealous that I didn’t know about it or I would have been there

I was at the zoo today with my kid and his grandparents. It’s a beautiful day in Seattle. We’re just getting toward the gorilla pit, something my kid has been looking forward to all week. Just then my pops says “wait, I think they’re making an announcement”. Sure enough over the loud speaker, “please evacuate the zoo immediately for an emergency”

Strollers, en masse, roll toward the exit. Kids are crying, confused why they have to leave the one place they want to be. Parents laugh nervously, knowing the deeper danger that might be looming, the first thought being “oh and animal must have escaped”. As we were corralled toward the exit I’m sure more than one of us was also thinking “I hope this isn’t a mass shooting”.

We get to the car, I check the zoos instagram to see what’s going on. A bomb threat has been called on the zoo. Apparently this has been happening all across the country with zoos and aquariums getting threatened or swatted.

I’m sick of living like this. Absolute terror tucked away in the back of my mind every time I step into a public place, especially with my kid. This internet poisoned, terrorgrammed, 764 nihilistic ass society is truly rotten. Fuck these people. Let me live in peace.