• Avid Media Composer

  corrupt project and lost media!!! please help!!

  Posted by Chris Hindle on November 10, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  I have just consololdated the entire media for an ongoing project from one drive to another to create space for a new project.

  When the consolodation had finished the media was not to be found on either drive, and when I open the project with the missing media, none of the bins will open and is saying they are corrupt somehow.

  Can anyone please please help with this problem, even just to get me back to a position where I can batch capture the media and re-create effects again.

  Thanks

  Chris

  Mark replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark

  November 11, 2008 at 11:25 am

  Try opening the bins in a new project. If that doesn’t work, then go find the backups of your bin the Avid Attic and rebatch those.

  Have you checked if the media actually got put on the new drive when you performed the consolidate ???

  Mark

  Mark Harvey
  Senior Editor
  Le Réseau des sports
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  Chris Hindle

  November 11, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Hi

  thanks for the reply

  I have got the bins from the avid attic, but just found out the project was done on a mac and for some reason the PC isn’t recognising the bins as avid files so won’t open them.

  the lost media doesn’t seem to be on any of the drives even though the drive I tried to consolidate to only has 20G left when before the consolodation it had about 40G left on it, so something must have been copied over, but nothing is showing in media tool or on the drives themselves.

  thanks
  Chris
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  Mark

  November 11, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  for the Avid bins from the Attic, you have to add the file extension “.avb” to the files. when Avid creates the bins in the Attic that extension is left off so that they are not included in the database.

  For the hardrive, if you are looking in the right place, but there is nothing, then it sounds like the drive has become corrupted…does the drive mount properly ??? It is a PC striped drive ??? (NTFS) I have had issues with drives that were striped for MAC not mounting.

  Mark

  Mark Harvey
  Senior Editor
  Le Réseau des sports

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