• Avid Media Composer

  Difficulty importing files

  Posted by Phil Byrd on January 15, 2015 at 5:37 pm

  I have been sent a hard drive with files I need for a project. They are .mxf files and are placed in the correct MXF/1 directory. Media Composer (7) appears to scan the files when booting. But when I open media tool, the files can’t be located on the disc, so can’t be imported to the project. I follow the drill of selecting source and destination in media tool, then closing media tool. Then opening again. And still can’t find the files. As a check I was able to see other .mxf files on other drives with media tool.

  Might this be media from MC8? Or is there something else I’m missing?

  Shane Ross replied 11 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Ricky Barrow

  January 15, 2015 at 7:16 pm

  Perhaps they are OP-1A MXF Files? If so, they need to be converted into OP-Atom files(Native to Avid).

  Ricky
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  Michael Phillips

  January 15, 2015 at 7:54 pm

  If they are OP-1A, then you should be able to AMA link to them using the AMA plug-in. If that is indeed the case, I would move them out of the Avid MediaFiles folder structure.

  Michael
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  Shane Ross

  January 16, 2015 at 1:23 am

  Locate the .mdb file in the MXF>1 folder. Drag that into a bin. It should populate that bin with all the media in that folder

  Shane
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