One project for the whole show

A show is cut by a team. Two editors might each have an act while an assistant ingests yesterday’s shoot. B/side keeps all of it in one project, and lets everyone work at once.

How the team works

• Each editor cuts their own act, on their own machine.
• Nobody touches your timeline. Your cut stays yours.
• Assistants bring in dailies while you cut. Nobody waits for a room to be free.
• There are no bin locks, so everyone can work at the same time.
• Every act, and every earlier cut of it, is kept in the one project.

Why it matters

On a show, time goes on the gaps between people. The editor waiting for the dailies, or the assistant waiting for the editor to finish with a bin. One project that everybody works in at the same time closes those gaps.

It also keeps the history in one place. When an executive asks for the act the way it was two cuts ago, it is already in the project, next to the cut you have now.

Footage for everyone

The free desktop helper ingests footage for the whole team, grouped the way it was shot, so every editor sees the same day the same way. Camera originals stay on your own drives unless you choose otherwise.

Bring the show you already have

If the show started in Media Composer, drop in the Avid project folder and its bins and cuts open intact.

Your house and your staff

Add your staff once and they can open every project in the house, with no adding them show by show. They get an email saying you added them, and a reply comes straight to you.

• Embargoed shows. Keep a show to the people on it.
• Freelancers with a last day. Add someone until the end of their booking. After that they cannot open the project.
• House LUTs and graphics. Share them with the staff once, and every editor has them.

Plans

Inviting people to cut with you is part of the Studio plan and up. For a post house, each show includes 4 editing seats. Producers and reviewers are always free.