• Avid Media Composer

  Consolidating isssues

  Posted by Øystein Rabbe on March 6, 2008 at 6:46 pm

  I´m trying to consolidate a 1 hour, 10 minute Master Sequence. After about 3800 (of 4800) clips I get the following error message:

  Exception: Failed Lock:
  The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.
  V:/OMFI MediaFiles/msmMMOB.mdb

  After pressing the OK-button, I get a consolidated timeline with lots of audio and video clips offline. Any Idea what could cause this? I guess the consolidating halts on a specific clip, but will it be possible to find which one without throwing the whole timeline apart?

  The material is DV25 411, audio is imported or transcoded to 48kHz/16-bit AIFF-C and the only third part plug-in used is Magic Bullet Looks v. 1. My version of Avid is Xpress Pro 5.7. Consolidtating from a EditShare v. 5.1.6 system into an external harddrive.

  Adam Stuart replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Stuart

  March 11, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  First, have you tried rebuilding your database files?

  If you have try breaking your timeline into 20 minute chunks. Consolidating each one. If it fails on one chunk every time you could narrow it down to a certain clip causing problems. For instance you could try and strip everything out of your sequence except video. Try consolidating video and see if an error is returned. If not then it might be a piece of audio is corrupt etc.

  Please be sure to duplicate all master sequences before you start ripping apart your sequence! It’s always a good reminder but I’ve been in a situation rebuilding a sequence because I got careless. Good luck!

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