Long gone are the simple days of “are you shooting Film or Video”. Today’s filmmaker is faced with a host of new and cost effective cameras, recording formats and mediums, with the majority of them working with some form of digital file based data. We’ll look at cameras and recording mediums such as P2 MXF with DVCProHD & AVC-Intra, XDCam & NXCam, HDSLR’s, and camera phones like the iPhone and FlipCam.

This webinar will offer a comprehensive look at what comprises these various digitally acquired files and how to successfully design your workflow and ingest your digital data into Avid Media Composer to begin creatively editing your content.

• Overview and components of a digital data file.
• Data camera platforms and their formats.
• Codecs, compression & transcoding concepts.
• Organizing your data workflow.
• Linking your data files in Avid Media Composer.
• Other resources & applications for working with data files.