• Avid Media Composer

  Media Offline

  Posted by Brendan Maghran on September 18, 2008 at 3:00 am

  I am a bit new to avid media composer 3.0 and on a mac pro I captured a couple bins and then saved them to my external hard drive. I have brought the hard drive back to my imac and am trying to open the bins in mc 3.0. Whenever I either transfer and open them from the avid projects folder or import or open them from the hard drive, it says media offline when I try and play the footage. Not sure what to do, very annoyed. They’re saved in .avb format.

  Thanks for any help you can give.

  Kenton Vannatten replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jon Zanone

  September 18, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Where does your media live?

  Keep in mind a bin in the Avid points to the media on a drive, typically an external or seperate drive. It doesn’t contain media, it just points to where the media is.

  Try deleting your media database files in your media drive. When you start up MC, it’ll rebuild the media database.

  Jon

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  And telling us stuff that we already know”

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  Kenton Vannatten

  September 18, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  Also answered on the Avid Community Forums

  https://community.avid.com/forums/t/63334.aspx

  Kenton VanNatten
  Avid Editor (for hire)

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