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Problem importing MFX footage to AVID 6
Hi every one, I’m trying to import MXF materials to AVID MC6 that I graded and rendered out (roundtrip) from resolve. I also did what a previous threat (link below) suggested but no luck for me.
Any thoughts?Regards John
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Hi,
Did you export out the graded session as an AAF from Resolve in the Conform Page to import into MC6 ?
In the storage where your Avid media is located, make sure in the Avid Mediafiles folder you create a number folder. This number folder is where you render into from Resolve. Avid only looks into these numbered folders for the MXF mediafiles to create the database.
I just recently did a roundtrip with Avid Media Composer 6 and Resolve 8.2 and it worked very smoothly.
-chrispy
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Did you create a new numbered (Swiss bank account)/ folder in the AvidMediaFiles/MXF partition? I found that keeping the source media separate from the new rendered media helps to keep the accounting and cataloguing at least humanly understandable, especially if you’re coming from a FCP-“anywhere” media storage point of view.
If the new media is in the same original folder, maybe it would be worth a try to filter it out into a new folder – in the AMF/MXF hierarchy, of course, and create a new mdb.
Once the mdb has been established, it should be draggable to a new bin in MC6. If it still chokes, maybe there’s a codec problem and at that point, I’d start test-rendering individual clips in a variety of formats.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Sorry…I forgot to add that in the Avid Mediafiles folder, there is a MXF folder. It is in this MXF folder that you create the number folder.
And it’s best to create a new numbered folder for Resolve renders so as to keep them separate from the other Mediafiles and you can keep the number of files in the folder manageable.
-chrispy
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Hey John which error message does Media Composer give you when you try to bring the clips in?
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Hi Jaaron, Here it is: “You Cannot import this file into a bin. See the documentation about transferring media files.”
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First of all thank you all, for your input, I did all you instructed me to do with no luck again… but now I got this new message: “unable to link to the AMA file or volume” and then this message comes: Go to AMA Plug-ins website… and I did, I downloaded the AMA plug-ins. Still nothing nothing nothing.
Thank you!
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Hey John, are you using the Media Tool? In Media Composer, you cannot import MXF files via File>Import…, because you’ll get that message. You must use the Media Tool, found under Tools > Media Tool. Assuming you’ve put your footage in the “Avid MediaFiles/MXF/[number]” folder, You’ll find your graded footage under the project name you set in Davinci Resolve. From there you can drag it in to your project’s bins.
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Good morning, Michael’s procedure worked, but still, is quite odd to do all of the above in order to get footage into AVID6. Anyway one last question, what EDL setting should I use for exporting an EDL to resolve for final grading?
Thank you all for your help and time, John.
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You don’t have to use the Media Tool. When Avid starts up, it will create two files in the numbered folder you created, assuming you put it in the right place. Create a new bin, and drag the file that ends in .mdb into it. It will populate the bin with master clips for all of the files in the folder.
The fact that Avid uses a specific directory structure and doesn’t import its own native files is only odd if you think that Final Cut is “normal.” Neither one is odd or normal, it’s just the way the programs were written. Avid was designed to keep track of files via a database that is very robust, and in order to do that, they took care to design the program so that you wouldn’t be able to easily break that database. That was the reason for OMF files in the past, and MXF files today, because even if you change the name of the file – not easily done because they’re in that unique directory structure – the metadata used to access that media is written into the file headers, allowing the program to work even if you change the file names. Most users would rather have that kind of bullet proof media management than the free form approach taken by other programs in which you can all to easily break the links between media and your editing work.
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[John Christoforu] “what EDL setting should I use for exporting an EDL to resolve for final grading? “
I use an AAF, which retains multiple video tracks, basic transitions and other data.
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