AVID - Sony A7S II - Production and Post-Production Workflow

Attach the lens and turn the camera on

Open the door for the SD card and

Insert the card in the card slot

Press the Menu button

This dial will navigate the menus

The dial on the right of the screen will also navigate the menus and pressing the inner button will select the menu item.

Scroll horizontally to the "Toolbox" icon menu and then scroll over to tab #7 and then scroll down to the "Setting Reset" and press the inner button to select the menu.

Choose the setting "Camera Settings Reset"

Press the inner dial to select this.

Choose OK to Reset the Camera Settings. Camera will reboot and reset the menus to default.

Next we need to format the SD cards.
Scroll horizontally to the "Toolbox" icon menu and then scroll over to tab #5 and then scroll down to "Format" and press the inner button to select the menu.

All Data will be deleted and click "Enter" to begin the formatting of the card.

The Formatting will take a few seconds.

Next go to the "Camera" icon Menu Tab and choose page #2 of that menu



File Format choose AVCHD

File Format choose XAVC S 4K if you want to record UHD

XAVCS HD if you want to record HD

Now change the Record Setting by selecting it

Choose 24P 100M

These are the recommended recording settings here

File Format> XAVC S 4K
Record Setting 24p 100M

Leave the Dual Video REC "off"

Toolbox #4 HDMI SETTINGS

HDMI - AUTO

24/60 = 24

HDMI INFO - OFF

TC - ON

REC CTRL - ON

CTRL FOR HDMI?

Insert card in card reader and it'll mount to the desktop

Back up the contents to another hard drive with the file structure exactly as it is on the card.

1. Make a folder on the backup HD and call it "Card 1 – Day 1" or similar

Copy the contents of the card to this folder exactly as they are on the card

Copy the "Private" folder to the Card folder on the backup Hard Drive

Open AVID Media Composer

Make sure the project is saved to your HD and then select New Project

Navigate to the Card Backup Folder and choose the >Private>
M4ROOT folder and choose Link

Select the files you want to use in the project and transcode them to work in AVID for offline editing.

Once selected choose >Clip>Consolidate/Transcode

Choose Transcode

Select the hard drive to store the transcoded files.


Choose to keep the sources frame rate

Target Video Resolution DNxHR LB MXF

Convert the audio to 48K 24Bit
Click Transcode

The resulting file will be the same raster size but will now be an AVID DNxHR Codec. Do this to all the files you want to use in your AVID project.