Packaging up a project for working on the road

I shot a film this weekend using the new blackmagic RAW codec, and need to take it on the road with me to edit this week. I tried this the weekend before with another project by working off an external drive connected to my laptop, but came to the conclusion my laptop can't handle the RAW footage.

I am guessing I need to transcode the footage to proxies so it runs smooth on my laptop, but wondering what is the proper way of packaging this thing up so when I am done working with it on the road, I can easily open it back up with the full res footage on my desktop.

You will need a proxy that maintains proper timecode for your source clips. MXFs should work, and should be very simple for laptop with external storage to handle.

Pretty simple test to create a test timeline of 5 or 10 clips, transcode them to something easy to work with (mxf op1A?)

You will need to do a roundtrip type workflow, where you export individual clips, keeping source filenames. I would enable flat pass as well if you plan on doing color work.

Edit a test sequence and then do a "reconform from bins" and point this mxf timeline to the original source footage. What ever you do, don't continue until you know your test is working.

If you plan on coloring while editing, you will also want to double check that your mxfs or what ever format you come up with, when put over top of your original shots, do not show a color or level shift.

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Project Archives can be created from the context menu of the Project Manager.

In addition to project metadata, they will include the media too, so you can move the archive as a whole to another machine or disk and continue your work there. Right click on Project Manager, choose Restore Archive, and point it to the archive folder to restore the project on the nw machine