• Avid Media Composer

  omfi problems

  Posted by Yotam Monk on October 23, 2008 at 10:11 am

  hi all
  im a new user,just installed mc3.it crashes every time the omfi directory is out in the open and working just fine whenever i hide it.
  the directory is a project edited with avid express pro and the size is around 75 giga
  thanks a lot
  yot

  Job Ter burg replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Job Ter burg

  October 23, 2008 at 10:39 am

  If you look in the OMFI MediaFiles folder, how many items are in there? You should try and keep them under 5000. That said, I have often worked with folders of 15000 items.

  A nice way to try to get things to run smoothly is:
  – At finder level, hide the OMFI MediaFiles folder
  – Create a new OMFI MediaFiles folder
  – Move some mediafiles (say 100 files) from the old folder into the new one
  – Launch Avid, see if it rebuilds the media database and runs fine
  – Quit Avid
  – At finder level, move some more files from the old folder into the new one
  – Launch Avid, see if it rebuilsds the media database and runs fine
  – Quit Avid
  – etc. Repeat until you have placed all the old files into the new folder, bunch by bunch.

  Quitting the application is rather essential, since rebuilding the media database eats RAM, and you will run out of RAM when rebuilding databases for very large directories. Quitting and relaunching ensures you have fresh RAM available for the process.

  HTH.
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  Yotam Monk

  October 23, 2008 at 11:20 am

  hi thanks a lot,working nice
  only problem is 2 files that i cant transfer msmmmob,msmfmid
  when i move them 2 the new library it crashes like before
  i do thank you very much
  yot
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  Jon Zanone

  October 23, 2008 at 11:34 am

  I’m not sure what an OMFI directory is – could you explain?

  Also, what are your system specs (machine, OS, RAM, video card, QT version…)

  Jon

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  Job Ter burg

  October 23, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  Ah, sorry, forgot to mention, those msm files you do NOT want to move, those are the databases you are trying to make the Avid rebuild. If you move those, you are undoing the rebuild. So move all files from the old folder to the new, except for “msmFMID.pmr” and “msmMMOB.mdb” and the subfolder “Creating”.
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  Job Ter burg

  October 23, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  The OP was referring to the OMFI MediaFiles directory, in which his mediafiles are stored (when the Avid is set to work in OMF).

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