Low Budget Archival Doc Media Management/Workflow Mess
I’ve been brought on as an assistant editor to a very low budget archival documentary project and the media management situation is kind of a nightmare.
Multiple people have touched the drives over the course of the project (one at our office where the director and I work and one is out of state with the editor). There is no cloud sync of media or the project files, or premiere teams workflow going on. It’s a premiere production where projects are being shared back and forth by email.. Nobody has really owned the ingest process as the editor and director have been working asynchrounosly. Now both the drives are in slightly different states with differences in folder structures. The drives were mirrors of each other when the editor’s drive was shipped to him, but now they’ve drifted as more assets have been distributed and organized into different spots on the drives.
Curious how other people might approach this to clean this workflow up going forward. Would it take shipping the drive back and re-mirroring? The film has a ton of assets so my main goal is to reconcile these drives, as the project is already very heavily edited, but the production is breaking down due to the lack of synchronization.