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Avid Xpress Pro to Avid OS 9.2
Has anyone sent a cut sequence from Avid Xpress Pro (10.4) to an Avid running on OS 9.x?
I would like to do this, but I’m not sure it will work.
I would have an assist clone the media onto a drive for me as well. Any potential conflicts there, as the media has been digitized through a 9.2 system?
Ideally, at work they would clone the media, I would edit at home, then send them my sequences, and those sequences would automatically lnk to their media after import.
Thank you very much.
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In an ideal world this would work.
However, your post says Avid Xpress Pro 10.2. I’m all most certain there isn’t a 10.2 version. Are you talking about Media Composer 10.2?
Backwards compatibility isn’t always going to work. From my own experience, Xpress Pro work great with the Adrenaline. You can go back and fourth between those 2 setups day and night without isssues.
However, to go between an older Media Composer and Xpress pro doesn’t seem promising. I would do a test. Copy over a couple clips to a drive. and create a short sequence and send it back to see if it opens up. I’d be very curious to hear your results.
-paul p.
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In my experience, this will not work. Sequences are forward compatible but not always backwards compatible. At best you will get the cuts in the timeline but not any effects not available on the older system. At worst the sequence will crash the system. Whether the media will work on the older system depends on whether it’s a Meridian or ABVB system.
Your best bet if you want to edit on an older Avid might be to use an EDL to transfer the edits and redigitize the footage.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Another thought without having to redigitize is to export your cut as an OMF (with media – OMF 2 has been great for me, but not sure if OS 9 Avid will support OMF2, definitely OMF1) for import into the older system. And as Bill pointed out the media may not be compatible.I suppose the only way this would work is if you use 15:1s and your OS 9.2 system must be a Meridien.
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