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media management tutorial
I hate to admit it inasmuch as I have been editing on various flavors of Avid since the mid 90’s, but what I finally must admit to needing is a good media management tutorial. I all too frequently lose files when deleting old projects. Here is what I do.
One program I regularly edit is a bi-monthly magazine format show. They shoot several segments ahead, and I never know which segments are going to end up in which episodes, so I have created a ‘master segments’ project with a bin for each individual show segment. When I finally know which segment goes where, I open its bin in the appropriate episode’s project and assemble from there. So far so good. I can move segments around from episode to episode as the liquid program outline changes from day to day.
My problem occurs when the final episode is finished, broadcast, and copies made. Time to delete from the Avid. Since I can’t figure out how to delete from just one bin (segment) I always end up loading the media tool for the entire project, looking through it line by line and deleting what looks to be the elements for that particular segment. As you can imagine, this takes what feels like forever, and of course I end up deleting the wrong stuff from time to time. I am pretty good about keeping track of original materials, so I can get them back. But…
There has to be a better way. Hence the wish for a media management tutorial after all this time.
Mikey
Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
2.80 Ghz
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If needing to be careful about exactly what clips to delete, it’s best to just do it from the bin, deleting the media files of just the clips you want offline.
Today’s media tool is veeeery buggy and much more unreliable than it was a decade ago. I just use it to delete precomoputes now and even then it can only handle it 2.3 of the time. I’ll scroll through a timeline after killin it all and see a good handful of clips it missed. For this reason, I usually have to just throw my OMFI folders away about once a year just to delete everything.
Not always possible but the drives start beggin’ for it after a while.
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There is a free media management program out there called MDV.
https://fiool.nm.ru/progz/
Not much in the way of a tutorial but pretty easy to figure out.
Only works on Windows machines though. -
good to hear. that is how i used to delete long ago until my pinkies got slapped by a fan of the media tool. it used to work just fine. methinks i will return to that method. i also used to completely delete and reformat drives occasionally. but this was when i was on staff at a facility where we had a week’s break once in a while, where all projects were complete and nothing overlapped. can’t do that here.
maybe i can juggle files around to free up one drive at a time so i can give it a good cleaninig. think that might work?
Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
2.80 Ghz
2.0 GB RAM -
thanks. will check out program
Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
2.80 Ghz
2.0 GB RAM
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