ChristopherSeguine wrote:Most film productions and all concert films record 96khz.
Hold on: name one. All the feature films and TV shows I've ever worked on (about 700, last time I checked) have been 48kHz / 24-bit. Not one of them has been 96kHz or above, including some major concert projects like the Rolling Stones
Shine a Light film. I glanced at your IMDB resume and those projects are not familiar to me. I just delivered projects to Disney and Sony within the last few weeks, and believe me, they were all 48kHz. [I don't dispute that Netflix is among the few companies beginning to allow 96kHz / 24-bit deliverables, but I would bet you that all the location dialogue is still being recorded at 48kHz.]
I think you can make a good case for 96kHz for classical concert work going to SACD (at least the few thousand people who have an SACD player or a high-res streaming device), but I think this is a niche market at best. I buy some of these releases myself, but I don't consider it a mass-market format... especially for video.
Conformalizer and Ediload which are always suggested on here by people who have never used them,as they do not work for this application - they are for conforming edit changes, you need to have a protools session to work from, they conform, they do not convert.
They're only editorial tools -- they just rebuild an XML edit list and were never intended to convert. If you need to take a picture edit session and rebuild it in Pro Tools, both will work, as will Virtual Katy. They also work well as change tools, keeping up with picture edits over time. 48kHz / 96kHz / 192kHz are not part of what they do in any way.
But these accessory programs do work and they've saved my sound crews tons of work on the indie films we've done. There are some kludges involved, particularly from FCPX, but the smart sound editors know the workarounds and still get the job done.
Fairlight is an interesting question mark right now, but while it's clearly a work in progress, it's a step in the right direction. I think we'll see big changes at NAB in a month, and I think it'll be a good option for people looking for this kind of flexibility between picture editing, color, and sound.