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Consolidating / Archive problem in AVID MC5
Hey guys –
I’m a long-time FCP editor who is giving AVID a whirl and here’s my consolidation question/issue:
Let’s pretend I have finished a project and I want to archive it. By “archive” I mean that I want to create a new project that only contains my final sequence and associated media, and put this project/media into a separate folder out of the MXF/1/ area. I have tried to do this in AVID with surprising less success than I expected. Here are my issues:
1) AVID MC 5 doesn’t seem to have a “create new project” option with a consolidate or transcode. (right?)
2) AVID creates a new sequence and new master files and places then all in the SAME BIN as my old files. It just adds a .new01 (or close to that) appended to the end. This forces me to manually move my new sequence and media clips into a separate bin.
3) Since AVID places everything into /MXF/1/ folder, I’ve still got no real separation of the media files from my other projects.Can someone with a little more AVID experience give me some advice on their preferred method of archiving with consolidation please. I heard a rumour that a third party plugin is used for what I’m asking… “media mover” or something?
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[Daniel Frome] “1) AVID MC 5 doesn’t seem to have a “create new project” option with a consolidate or transcode. (right?)”
No…there is not. But getting this to a new project is easy. I’ll describe it and that way answer the other two questions too.
Move the sequence into a new bin. Call this the CONSOLIDATED bin…or something like that. Then consolidate the sequences, with handles. Consolidate TO ANOTHER DRIVE. Preferrably the archive drive. Or, just to another drive so that you have an MXF>1 folder with ONLY the media used in your cut. When that is done, click in the bin just above the icons on the left…in that space…it should highlight that entire column. Then press CMD-E to sort the bin by TYPE. This will make the Sequence shoot to the top. You will have the old sequence, and the new consolidated sequence. You can then make a new bin to move those into.
Now you have two bins…one with the cut, one with all the media.
Close out of the project and make a new one, with the same settings as your old one.
On the finder level, drag the two bins from the old project to this new one.
Boom…now you have a project with just the cut and just the media.
Shane
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To tack on to Shane’s post, make sure you also create the Avid project on your external drive.
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