• Avid Media Composer

  OMF / MXF player anyone?

  Posted by Alan Howard on July 13, 2009 at 11:55 am

  Hi chaps …
  am using a work laptop with avid on board .. it seems that former editors here have put several projects on an external drive … and helpfully dig’ed media onto the c drive ….. I now have a c drive stuffed full and no way of seeing what this media is ….

  Any clues on downloadable OMF / MXF players ?

  Thanks in advance

  Alan

  Job Ter burg replied 16 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  Ervin Tia

  July 14, 2009 at 7:38 am

  try VLC.
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  Job Ter burg

  July 14, 2009 at 5:50 pm

  You could try to use MediaSift and/or MDV. They won’t play the media, but they will show the media’s project association, so you will know which media belongs to which project.
  Other than that, MC Soft is a great player for OMF/MXF files 😉
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  David Braswell

  July 15, 2009 at 1:15 pm

  If you have “Avid on board” you can use the Media Tool in frame mode to view and delete clips.
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  Chris Stabile

  July 15, 2009 at 2:34 pm

  Do you have a link to MC Soft? Can’t find it.
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  Alan Howard

  July 15, 2009 at 3:35 pm

  Thanks for suggestions guys …
  can’t find out too much about MC Soft …. presuming its a Media Composer lite type of programme?
  VLC has the odd habit of playing some OMF files perfectly well .. the majority tho, it’ll play for a frame or two and then minimise as if it’s an audio track I’m trying to play …. media tool, “frame view” gives me a series of static black frames .. if there’s a play button there I can’t find it….

  Think I’m gonna bite the bullet and delete these media files from the C drive … even if I can identify what they are, is there a way of linking them to a new project?

  Alan
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  David Braswell

  July 15, 2009 at 3:46 pm

  You should consider copying the entire folder structure to a suitable external media drive. Then you could delete from C Drive and try to relink to new media drive.

  There is no MC lite, only Avid DV, Xpress Pro, and MC (and briefly FreeDV).
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  Micah Haun

  July 16, 2009 at 1:27 am

  “MC Soft” is just an abbreviation for Avid Media Composer with no Adrenaline/Mojo/Nitris/DX acceleration M(edia) C(omposer) Soft(ware only). From the sound of it you already have that.

  If you’re on Windows or Wine, you could try these guys out:
  https://www.amberfin.com/mxfdesktop/
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  Job Ter burg

  July 16, 2009 at 6:44 am

  By MC Soft, I mean Avid MediaComposer Software. In its Media Tool, you can browse through all available media.

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