This will be my first big multicam job since upgrading from CS4, and I've been searching for a definitive answer on this but I haven't had any luck. Yesterday, I shot an 80-minute musical with 3 cams: a GH2 and 2 HF-M41's. All cams were shooting in 1080p; the GH2 was set to 24H and the Canons were in PF24, so I have a variety of 3.99GB MTS files in 23.97p from the Panny and 1.9GB MTS files in 29.97i from the HF's, and a master WAV audio track from a Tascam DR-40. I'm looking for 24p final delivery on Blu-ray. My workflow on CS4 for this would have been:
1) copy the MTS files to my Media RAID drive
2) join the MTS files from each camera using MTS_Merger
3) convert to Cineform AVI using Prospect HD (and remove 3:2 pulldown from the Canon clips)
4) bring each clip into PPro in its own 1080p24 Sequence
5) do multicam editing in 20-minute Sequences (CS4 would bog down after about 25 min of multicam)
6) nest 20-minute Sequences into full-length Sequence
7) color-correct original clip Sequences (if I did this first, multicam would crash in CS4)
8) add master audio track
9) export for delivery to client
Is this still the best workflow for CS6, or should I do it differently? Just looking for a simple answer to avoid several more hours of Googling and trial & error. Thanks!
PC specs:
Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
8GB DDR2 RAM
1GB Radeon HD4870
640GB C: drive
1.2TB RAID0 for media
250GB HDD for Media Cache & Scratch Disks
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit