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Relinking files
Hi everyone,
I’m kind of new with avid so i don’t know yet how to fix problems that maybe are really easy to solve.
I’m trying to relink some files cause the hard disk where they were originally stored went lost. I have all the avid media files on a new hard disk but when i open the project and i click on “relink” a dialogue window appears and says that no clip were relinked. In order to get a new data base in the folder creating, i’ve already tried to delete the old ones, but nothing happens. I found out also that in the avid media files->mxf->1 some files are double, so i tried to delete the twin file so that avid didn’t get confuse on which one chose for the relinking, but it didn’t work.Thanks
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9 Replies
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Do they appear correctly in the MediaTool when you open it?
Michael
Michael Phillips
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If i use the media tool with only master clips checked it doesn’t find them, otherwise if i check both master clips and media files it does.
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Maybe this can help. I’ve noticed that from the media tool i can load the mov but not the xmf files.
Best regards
ThanksGiacomo Aschacher
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I’m sorry i meant MXF
Giacomo
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Hi Giacomo,
what do you mean with loading the mov files from the media tool? In your mxf folder there should only be .mxf files. .mov files are QT files. If you drag the .mxf giles from the media tool into a bin they are still offline? That shouldn`t happen. Where those files digitised or imported? You should be able to drag the clips (Media tool Master clips and Media Files checked) from your media tool to a bin. Otherwise you could check the relink options. Maybe unchecking the box “relink only to media from the current project” might help. Relinking in Avid is a tricky business. Do you already have a cut sequence that needs to be relinked? You wrote that you tried to trash the old .mdb file in the mxf Folder. Did the avid application do a scan after restarting it? After rwstarting it should write a new .mdb/pmr file. You can also try to e.g. create a new title (title tool). After creating a new .mxf file the avid should update the database file.
Hope some of my suggestions are of any help. If not keep us updated!
Yours sincerely
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Giacomo,
Your postings are a little vague for me, but let me try and explain what I think you need to understand.
When you capture or import media into the Avid, generally, you import into a bin and this gives you master clips (a metadata entity) with related media. Those mediafiles will reside in the mediafiles folder.
In your mediafiles folder, at finder/desktop level, you will see a bunch of XYZ123456.mxf files. You won’t see these filenames in the Media Tool.
When you open the Media Tool you tell the Avid to look at the mediafiles folders and have it tell you what’s there. If you look for master clips, the Media Tool will look for any media that belongs to master clips, and it will display these as master clips (which you then may drag into a bin if you like).
You mention MOV files. These should NOT reside in your Avid MediaFiles folder. But if you have been importing QT movies, you may certainly have master clips named XYZ.mov.
You say that earlier on, you have lost a drive with media. If these were imported MOV’s (as I deduct from what you wrote earlier), the best way to bring them back in is to select the previously imported master clips (now offline), and select Clip->Batch Import. This way, you simply “fill” the metadata entities (master clips) with new media, and all your sequences will link to those instantly.
If you have lost mediafiles for imported MOV’s, and you manually imported those clips again (not with Batch Import), you will probably not have Tapename entries for those original clips, nor for the newly imported clips. And relink works based on Tapename and Timecode. With either one missing, it’s a no-go.
Hope this helps.
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Sorry i was just confused when i said i can load only mov files, cause obviously i have only mxf in my avid files folder. I tried to drag the file from media tool to a bin but they are still offline and when i try to move them a dialogue box appears saying “Some of the items arriving in the bin are currently marked not to display in this bin, the items arrived safely”, and anyway i can find them with the media tool only if i check the option “media files” but even if they appear in the media tool window they are still offline and i can’t load them. I’ve tried all of the above but nothing change. As far as the cut sequence is concerned, yes i have this sequence that it’s a kind of rough cut. The files were shooted with a canon 5d and then imported in avid.
Thank you for helping
Best regards
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If you master clips appear in the media tool, there must be SOME media present for those clips. Under Bin Headings, select “Offline”, and that column will tell you what part of the media is offline (probably video is offline, with audio still present or something like that).
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Hi Job ter Burg, first of all thank you for your help, i’ve tried to do as you said, and i reimported the clips with file->batch import and it worked!!! That was the easiest way… XD
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