YUV 4:2:2 doesn't have to be REC709 Rec 709 has to be YUV 4:2:2 But YUV 4:2:2 could be 6bit, 8 bit 10 bit any bit you want. It could be full swing or studio levels. I'd ask them for a proper spec. Time people in the media industry started to push for people to know what they are asking is technically...

Uhm FCP-X import problems... Avid Media Composer forum... You may do better here: https://forums.creativecow.net/finalcutprox

There are a number of products designed to do just that. Look at Project Parking http://www.marquisbroadcast.com/project-parking.html But there are others as well. Remember that things get more complicated if you have things like P2 or XDCAM. You can't just take one clip from the set.

The Avid Spectramatte effect is pretty good. What was the green screen footage shot on? Thats normally the limitimng factor. Needs to be a 4:2:2 color space.

You create the group clip using multiple source clips ensuring you establish sync between them. Load the group clip into the source monitor and cut it into a time line. You can then enter multicam mode and toggle the source (use up down keys) to "switch" which source is active. MC will add...

Set your drives in Media creation tool. Set them for HD and SD. Then drag the media creation setting to the site setting window. All new projects should adopt the now default media creation. That said MC for years has randomly changed the media creation location. Its just a bug thats never been fixed...

On the new laptop create some avid media on the drive with the Avid media files on them. Create a title or make some tone media. This should get added to the media files you already have. If it makes a new folder structure (Avid Mediafiles at root of drive followed by MXF folder foloowered by numbered...

I have a windows 2003 R2 server that I use for central Project and media storage. No sharing required, only one editor at a time access that project and media but that works fine. We map a network drive and enable all drives in teh Avid console. Works fine.

How do you plkan to grade the final online content? resolve? I would transcode the finsihing media until you have a final sequence. Just relink back to the AMA and send to the grade. You maynot even need to make finsihing media in Avid if Resolve is used to grade.

See my BM 10.4 woes post... It's the later drivers that improve issues like that but they also introduce a who bundle of other issues.