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AE and QT Reference Movies
Good morning all,
I have an AE project that has several hundered Quicktime reference movies in it. The movies were exported from our Avid Adrenaline…so they refence the .aif and .omf data on my Avid drives.Here’s the issue. We recently upgraded our storage from .5TB of “rack & stack” Avid drives, to a 2.5TB Avid VideoRAID. So, all the media now resides in a different location. When I launch the AE project, of course, it can’t find any of the files for the reference movies. My thinking was that this was an Avid function to simply rescan the media folders and relink everything like it does when I move media around for Avid projects….OK, lesson learned.
The files were previously on 2 partitions, M: and N:. They are now in a common folder on the new drives called Z:. So renaming the volume to match the old ones is not an option.
Aside from manually searching for each of the hundreds of files, is there a way, from within AE or through a plugin to automate this process. If you have ever seen the file names in an Avid OMFI Media folder, you know searching for each individual file is a nightmare!Thanks in advance…
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Thanks, Dave.
AE gives me the chance to find the files but Avid uses a database to name and handle it’s files. So, it generates file names like “BR271SDO.OU25.254D.AE3.omf” If the requestor in AE would plug the name of the missing file into the dialog when I search, all I would have to do is point it to the folder and it would pick up the file. But it doesn’t. So I have to search through thousands of files in the folder to find and select each one.
I’m better off going back to my Avid project and create new reference movies and do a “Replace File” for each clip in AE.
Tough lesson to learn.
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