Is this overkill for archiving?
Hi all - I've recently fallen into an unofficial "media archivist" role at my company, and am still figuring out what our archiving process should actually look like. I'm no DIT expert, but fortunately I'm working off some recommendations mapped out by a previous employee who really knew his stuff.
I understand the main thing is to generate separate exports of all video and audio elements for each finalized Premiere sequence - ProRes 422 for footage, 444 w/ alpha for graphics, .WAV for music/dialogue/SFX. Pain in the ass, but seems like this is considered best practice across the board and I can see why.
Where I get confused is that my former colleague also recommends doing "Consolidate and Transcode" on the project after exporting all those masters. His instructions were vague here, but after researching/test-driving it a bit, I figure this is basically an automated version of the master exports process I'm already doing - albeit less organized, more cluttered, and sucking up a lot more space.
So basically, doing this in addition to the masters seems like overkill... but am I missing something? Is "Consolidate and Transcode" just supposed to be a quick-and-dirty alternative to manually exporting masters, and therefore redundant if you already have them? Or am I totally misunderstanding what it is?