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avid import drives
Good day all (not really) Frustrated with avid MC 4.4, I thought I would look to the cow for help. I am trying to figure a problem with avid not relinking media or re-scanning the media folders on the system drive and I come to find out I cannot set the import drive. When I try to import something I get a message telling me that there are no media drives available, you will only be able to import shot logs. Why would there be no media drive and/or why can I not set anything in the media creation tool? I know (from experience and posts) that you should always keep media on externals, but I work at a school where we have our tutorial media on the system drive and shared avid projects in the shared folder. I am trying to refresh but it just says there are no media drives for this action? Why oh why would anybody believe this media management is superior to FCS is beyond me. At least I can get my media and choose ANY drive I want, when I want and don’t have to worry about this kind of thing ever happening. Al I want to do change the drive it’s looking at and point it in the right direction, but no go. How is this a superior app? I have tried refresh, relink, media tool, (shows no media nor can I search for it) right clicking and choosing relink, and nothing works. I have seen many posts start out this way with no resolution and the avid instructor is getting tired of doing this over and over, isn’t there some way to get around this? Again I am working at a school and we have the tutorials on the system drive. We are running 2x 2.26 quad-core mac pro, 6 gig memory, and the HDD has 545 gigs available. The fact that we still have the omfi media files folder on the top level, copied from avid xpress machines doesn’t seem to be a big deal, it sees that stuff, but not being able to choose the drive is wacky. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Do you have any of the drive filtering options checked in your media creation settings?
What Mac OS version are you using?
You can also try opening the console in Avid and using the alldrives command.
Let us know.
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Thanks MM, only the first one is checked, filter network drives based on res is checked, but even when I un-check it, and restart the app, nada. We are running 10.6.3 I’m sure it is a media composer thing? I was only used to xpress, (using the omfi folder), and the regular IT guys finally did their job (for once) and set it up without letting me know anything aboot it. Now I am trying to play catch up and all I got is a week to finger this out.
Thanks for the reply,
-KeithReality? What did you make it?
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Did you try the console command “alldrives” ?
SYNTAX alldrives
NOTES Networked drives which appear as drive letters on your desktop will not automatically be
seen by the AVID application. To make these drives appear in the Avid application (Capture
window for example), and to make media on these drives available for playback use this
command.
CAUTION When using alldrives more than one editor should not use the same drive at the same time.
Two editors recording to the same drive simultaneously could destroy the media databases.
At the very least, with multiple users on the same drive repeated scans of the media files will
be triggered which wastes time.You just have to open the console in Avid and type alldrives and then hit enter.
Also make sure your mac user has ownership rights on the Mac internal HD.
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Thanks M, but still I get an error that says no media drives for import when trying to import. We are a school so we are not using externals or servers, each workstation is self-contained and as such we need to import to the internal drive with the students being on a non-admin user. Should I recommend that each student get a dedicated AMA drive? Just for Avid? I believe that’s what I would do if it were me, but I use FCP and don’t like my media on the boot drive. Or will using an external thats used for all their projects be fine as long as they stick to the Avid file hierarchy?
Thanks for your response.
-KeithReality? What did you make it?
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Keith,
It is unclear on what you actually tried doing?
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Sorry M,
Ok, here goes… Log in to student account with no admin rights, launch avid, with no externals attached I try to import any media into avid, error msg= “no media drives available for import, you can still log shots” no biggie. go to console, type alldrives, hit return, try again, same thing (so that works for network drives but that’s not what I’m after, I want to make the boot drive available for importing media, for students tutorial media only) checked media creation tool, in each tab boot drive is greyed out with the “all drives filtered out” msg in list. When importing with no volumes connected there is no choice for media drive. Tried all again on admin account to no avail. My next question is: composer is only configured to work with external and network storage instead of the main system drive?
So in a nutshell, 2 things: 1. change which volume avid is looking for with certain clips and, 2. set the system/boot drive as a media drive. Apologies for my miscommunication and/or confusington on this and many thanks for your continued patience. (I hope this is a little more clear.)
-KeithReality? What did you make it?
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Close all software.
Highlight the Internal HD and get info by hitting command+i.
Make sure you user name is listed and make sure it is set as an owner for the system drive in the permissions section at the bottom of the screen. I believe this is found in the gear looking icon at the bottom of the get info screen (not in front of a Mac at the moment.
-Matt
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Thanks a lot for your patience and responses. I checked permissions and the student account can only read, so we will have to make them use external drives always and all problems will be solved. If there is no way to relink footage from one drive and to point avid to another where it is to continue working on a project, then I guess that’s just life. (I don’t see how one could work this way on the go)
thanks a mill!
KeithReality? What did you make it?
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If they are read only then there is not a whole lot you can do.
If you simply move the Avid MediaFiles folder structure to another drive or to another Avid MediaFiles folder on another drive it will relink automatically when it scans the Avid database files.
You could also use the consolidate feature within Avid if you are on user that currently has access.
Hope this helps.
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also if you want to learn Avid Media Management a little better there are some tutorials here:
https://community.avid.com/media/g/techniqueshow-to/tags/media+management/default.aspx
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