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Adding a second Avid DV system
Hi guys,
Question: I’ve been cutting a show on a DV Express Pro system. We’d like to buy another system, so that two editors can work at the same time on the same show. I’ve familiar with having a unity server, where mutliple Media Composers can link up to the same footage, but in this case we can’t have these two machines on the same network (they will be in different towns). What is the best way to use the same media with two different DV express systems in different offices?
My concerns are:
1. Will transporting all the bins and media to this new computer enable the media to relinked and used? Or will the Avid not be able to find the media on a different machine?2. We are currently still digitizing media to our original machine, while we’d like to start cutting on the second. What’s the best way to update the second computer with media once it’s digitized on the first machine?
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. This is definitely the most helpful board I’ve ever been on.
Thanks,
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In general, you can just copy the data from OMFI Mediafiles directory onto a new computer. Delete the media databases and go – copy the bins as well and all the media should relink okay (although things like precomputes often become ‘orphans’ in the process, but that shouldn’t be a problem).
HOWEVER, it seems Windows XP can have serious issues with file permissions sometimes, and Avid can create file permissions which no user (including Administrator) can change, which can result is unusable media files, which can’t be renamed, moved or deleted.
I don’t quite know under what circumstances this does happen, but it it certainly can happen. To work around it in the past, I moved media in as few goes as possible, onto seperate drives. That way if I got media with messed up permissions (it only happens with the move, once it’s there and working it will stay working) I could reformat the drive and try again.
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