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avid media composer
Hi there
I have rebuilt my computer and removed all my media etc to another drive. I have now reinstalled AMC but I cant get any of the films to link up with the old media. The drive letters are different, so how has one get back all the media. Do I need to make the existing drives the same name and letter as previous or is there a simplier method that I dont know about. The only button that would seem to do the job is the relink, but that doesnt seem to work either.
Hope you can help
Regards
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Is this captured/imported media or AMA?
As long as the folder structure (Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1) is correct and there are Media Database files normally Avid does not care about drive letters.
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I have both, captured and imported. All the media is sitting on an internal drive but it will not find it
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Try deleting the MDB and PMR files and see if Avid rescans the disks and recreates them.
Andrew McKee
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Also make sure your mediafiles are living in the exact correct folder on the root of the media drive. So that would be X:/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/n (where ‘X’ is any drive letter and ‘n’ is any number). A simple typo or subfoldering will hide the media from MC.
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[Andrew McKee] “Try deleting the MDB and PMR files and see if Avid rescans the disks and recreates them.”
And after you do that, make a bin, and drag the MDB into that bin. That bin will populate with every clip in that folder.
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