Production Sound Workflow with Pro Tools® - AGENT MX-Z3RO

You may know us (Avid) as the company that makes the tools used to create your favorite feature films, TV shows, and music. In a crazy (yet practical) twist, we decided to make a movie of our own. The result: Agent MX-Z3RO, a 15-minute indie movie that's meant to be a fun throwback to the '70s "shoot-em-up" action spy genre—think Eastwood meets Connery. Why'd we do it? Mainly, because it's difficult to secure demo material that we can use—without restriction—to teach filmmakers and post-production pros the same tools and workflows used across the industry to help them succeed.

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Get behind-the-scenes insight into what it takes to make an independent movie—from beginning to end—in producer, co-writer, and Avid marketing manager Tom Graham's Agent MX-Z3RO blog: http://community.avid.com/blogs/avid/archive/tags/Thomas+Graham/Independent+F....

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Avid
• AGENT MX-Z3RO
• Pro Tools
• Media Composer
• AAF
• dialog track
• ADR
• Scott Weber
• actors
• Zaxcom Deva
• WAV
• stereo
• mono
• sound mixer
• mix
• editing
• MetaData
• region bin
• session
• time code
• audition
• boom
• lav
• mics

[FotographerTV]

Very well done & really interesting!

[Nemosonics]

This is very interesting. One question though: was the polywav information embedded in the AAF? Or to rephrase the question to avoid any misunderstandings:

When where the polywavs first brought into the session? Where they imported during the cut in Media Composer and subsequently (somehow) made it in the AAF? Or did Scott had to import all the polywavs AFTER opening the importing the AAF? If it is the former, this is something I didn't know Media Composer could do!

[ArashAtman]

Is this a workflow fro Pro Tools HD only . I am running Pro Tools 9 here and the Field Recorder Channels Match Criteria is not available when I click the Channel's name.

I am working on an indie and it wold be a life saver as the session is exported in OMFII and I am facing issues with metadata track naming, meaning that I loose loads of precious time to locate production tracks.

I am editing on a Mac Book Pro and the Ctrl + 5 shortcut doesn't work either.

Is there an alternative ?

[OCUBOX]

@eatsleepgolf of course it does, with a whole load of hoops to jump

[eatsleepgolf]

@OCUBOX it works on PC too!

[OCUBOX]

@wizprodux which will mean I have to Buy a Mac Book Pro too, I'll stick with Nuendo :P

[wizprodux]

@OCUBOX buy it

[OCUBOX]

Too bad I don't have ProTools :P

[RiggiMediaInt]

Thank you for the reply. I am assuming your footage is in HD, so are you exporting as a QTRef or doing a video mixdown first then QTRef exporting the seq?

[eatsleepgolf]

@RiggiMediaInt We used Avid's Quicktime DnXHD Codec to view the video on the desktop. It will play in any version of Pro Tools and it's easy on the playback performance of your machine. We then use the DVI output to a projector or any such device. The nice thing too for the Media Composer video editor is, it's slightly faster than realtime export, much quicker than any other QuickTime resolution.