PREPARING FOR LINEAR ONLINE APPENDIX

“You don’t really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.”

—Theodore Bikel

Most of the preparation for a linear, tape-based online happens at the end of a nonlinear project when you make the edit decision list (EDL). But there are things that must be done properly throughout the job in order for the online to go smoothly. The reality is that with all the twisted financing that goes on in this crazy industry, there are still reasons to buy a bunch of offline models and create an EDL when finished. However, the days of saving money by going to a linear suite are swiftly ending. Throughout this process keep one thing in mind: You are stripping valuable ...

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