What is Workflow?
If you've been involved in the video production world for a while you'll have heard the phrase "Workflow" without really understanding what it means. Don't worry you're not alone and with the advent of digital cinematography it was thought it would get easier, but with the multitude of formats, cameras and applications this has been far from the case. Workflow is basically how you get the images captured, your editorial decisions, visual effects and colour decisions all the way through the process to delivery. Good workflow is doing that without losing quality and spending the time as sensibly as possible. 1. Capture video data on set. 2. Create Proxy files from the original video data. 3. Edit using proxies in an offline suite. 4. Export EDL to be used in an online suite and audio mix. 5. Online suite relinks to original video. 6. Online suite then finishes the video (Colour Grade, reframe, and redo mixes/fades) 7. Online suite exports finished piec