audio offline when moving media to different drive

[Bouke Vahl]

Perhaps you have both OMF and MXF files.
Look on the external drive, if there are, copy BOTH OMFI mediafiles and Avid mediafiles.

hth

Bouke

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[Richard Barber]

You’re right! But I there must be something wrong with the way I’m copying the omf files onto the other drive, because the audio is still offline. I started over again, trashed the copied mxf media files, then copied the mxf files into the folder that contains the rest of my mxf media for the project. Then I copied a folder labelled omfi media files onto the drive placing it in the Avid media folder. Again the clips play the video but not the audio, and the audio is offline. I tried relinking but that didn’t do anything. I wondered if I have to convert the omf files, but I didn’t need to do anything like that to get the audio to play from media on the firewire drive. Can you follow up your first astute diagnosis with another?

[Rory Brennan]

Perhaps a more thorough option would be to consolidate all the media to your desired drive. Whilst this might take longer, it should grab everything you need without you worrying about missing files.

[Richard Barber]

Thanks, consolidating did the trick. I really appreciate the quick help, and this site that makes it possible.

[Richard Barber]

I’m new to these forums and I just tried to rate a post for the first time – yours. For the record: I meant to give your very useful post maximum cows, but I mistakenly gave only one, and the vote apparently cannot be changed.

[Ben Wilson]

Richard,

I know you already resolved this, but for future reference:

The OMFI Media folder must be on the same directory level as the AVID Media folder, not in it. Both must be at the top directory level of the Media Drive. If the OMFI Media Folder is in a subfolder, AVID will not see it.

Ben Wilson
Engineering Project Manager
SCETV

[Richard Barber]

Thanks.