• Avid Media Composer

  Emergency File transfer help! Please

  Posted by Roy Schneider on February 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm

  Hi All:
  I hope your day is going well. I need a little help with a drive issue. I have a multi-format (USB/Firewire) drive that has my whole project on it (Media, and sequence info Ect.). It is sputtering and freezing up and not playing nice. Can someone walk me through the process of moving the project, and the media to my Avid Internal drives.

  Roy Schneider
  Long Live Da Cow!

  Erik Pontius replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Erik Pontius

  February 7, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  All of the media will be stored in two folders: OMFI Mediafiles
  and Avid Media.
  Copy those folders to your system’s hard drive. If the folders already exist you can overwrite them, which will add the media from the external drives to them. Then open each folder and delete the two database files, msmFMID.pmr and msmMMOB.mdb
  The next time you start Avid, it will scan the drives and update/recreate these databases to include all the media.

  Most likely you project files are located already on your system’s hard drive. On a Windows system they should be in C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Application\Avid Projects\
  Or in “Shared documents” and/or the “my documents” folder.

  Also on the PC, there are free applications such as “MediaSift” and “MDV” that can scan your drives and copy projects and media for you to another drive or folder. Do some googling to find them (note MediaSift doesn’t support MXF, just OMF).

  Erik.

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