• Avid Media Composer

  Reconnecting Avid Bin and Media

  Posted by Ted Machilles on February 3, 2015 at 12:55 am

  I’ve done this before a number of times with very little problem but for some reason I can’t get it to work now. Maybe it has something to do with being on Newscutter 10 now versus being on MC 6 before.

  I’ve received an Avid Bin and Media from a client on a drive. It’s just that, a folder with the bin and media.

  I created a project on the drive, loaded up some other media so that it would create the Avid MediaFiles directory for me and I couldn’t go wrong. I then cut and paste the .mxf files to the Avid MediaFiles > 1 location.

  After this I copied the bin to the project folder. It popped up in the project, but the media reads as offline. I tried using the Media Tool to see it but I couldn’t get it to work that way either.

  Am I forgetting something? The drive location lists clearly the computer they pulled it off of. I have a TON of material more that’s being delivered this way. Any advice?

  Thanks in advanced.

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

  February 3, 2015 at 1:00 am

  Delete the .mdb and .pmr files from the MXF>1 folder. Avid will now rebuild the media database and should include what you added.

  And it is on the correct file path of Hard drive>Avid MediaFiles>MXF>1, correct?

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  Ted Machilles

  February 3, 2015 at 1:04 am

  Hey Shane, thanks for the suggestion but no cigar. It did rebuild the database but the clip is still offline.

  Media is within the 1 folder just like so:

  Hard drive>Avid MediaFiles>MXF>1>EXAMPLECLIP.mxf
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  Ricky Barrow

  February 5, 2015 at 12:40 pm

  Try adding the media to a new folder “2” and after booting Avid see if it scanned the folder by looking for newly created .mdb and .pmr files.

  Ricky

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