We are now beginning editing the documentary Saving Mimosa and one of the challanges is that everybody involved in post-production is working from home in different parts of Sweden.
Editing suite at hone
The director & editor lives in Höganäs and the composer & sound mixer are located in Stockholm.
I’m editing in FCP 10.5 and this is not an application designed for a collaborative workflow, neither in an office or remote. So far, we have 70h of footage and it takes up 8 TB of storage on a large local RAID, thus complicating matters more.
We are using PostLab since a year back to share projects between remote editors and are now beginning to use PostLab Drive for sharing proxies in the cloud.
Review copies are managed via Frame.io, making everything so far as our standard workflow for smaller productions.
The purpose of the new workflow is to simplify our remote collaboration during the whole post-prouction process.
The composer uses Cubase and he need to transfer files to us, and we plan to use PostLab drive web-links for this instead of using Dropbox or other cloud services. When we near picture-lock can he adjust the score to the film and the dialog.
When we have a picture lock, it’s time to export the audio tracks to ProTools, via X2Pro Audio Converter. As we store audio tracks, score and foleys on PostLab Drive is it easy for the sound mixer to continue his work with the same media as the editor and the composer. After he is ready, he exports the steams back to the editor.
Color grading could then be made in a similar fashion. For grading, our two options are Color Finale or Resolve. The basic grading should be simple as we used a X-Rite color checker for each loacation and day.
Task as VFX and subtitling will also be managed in the same way.
One more thing.
I have order a new Apple Silicon Mac as a new computer for this improved remote workflow.