Accessing media files in different root folders?

[Brendan Maghran]

Yes if you prefer you can keep them all in different folders inside the Avid Mediafiles/MXF/1/2/3. Although I’m not sure how efficient this is for house keeping- if you need just the files from one project just consolidate.

You can also access them all off different drives if they all happen to live on independently from one another.

[Hector Berrebi]

few house keeping tips 🙂

Avid will always write to the folder named “1” in your MXF folder
it will read out of any number (even non sequential, so 2,3, and 27 are good)

if you want to separate transcoded/captured/consolidated/imported media,
you can rename the 1 folder any other number before you start your process, Avid will recreate a 1 and write to it.
when done rename it again.
just keep track on some text file as to which number refers to what project.

also, renders will keep writing to the current 1 project and sometimes you have to transcode mid-project… just keep watch.

thing is, if you master the Media Tool well, you can do most of your house keeping from there, including, accessing, deleting and moving media and render files of any project on your drive.

i wouldn’t go the way of renaming the MediaFile folder to separate projects, unless its a completely external project you want to fully separate from your other projects.

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Drew Reynolds]

Thanks Hector – some useful tips there. Perhaps it doesn’t matter if everything is in folder 1 – if that’s where Avid prefers it to be. I suppose I was likening Avid media to all my photos, music, and documents – I wouldn’t want them all together in one enormous folder. But I guess that’s the wrong analogy, and the Media Tool should allow me to access even individual files in folder 1 if I needed to – no matter how much stuff is in it. You’re right – mastering Media Tool is the key…

I may be back with more questions when I start the job!