BIG PROBLEM – I really hate Avid

[Michael Hancock]

Where are your OMF and MXF files stored? All of the OMF files need to be in your OMFI MediaFiles folder in the root of your media drive. For example, if your media drive is M:\ then your OMF files need to be in M:\OMFI MediaFiles. And OMFI MediaFiles needs to be spelled exactly like that spaced exactly like there, down to the capitalization of certain letters.

Your MXF media goes in a different folder, and I don’t have an Avid in front of me. From memory it’s something like M:\MediaFiles\MXF\1 or another numbered subfolder. If you have other projects online you’ll see where the MXF media goes.

If these files are already where they belong then delete your database files in the OMFI MediaFiles folder and all of the MXF numbered subfolders. When you relaunch Avid it will rebuild the databases and relink the media.

Let us know if this helps.

Michael.

[Erichon]

Tried this already but it doesn’t work! Has it to do that I digitized with HDV split and then imported into Avid?

thx
eric

[Bouke Vahl]

try ‘relink’

Also, open the media tool and see if you can find your clips.

This should definitly work if you do everything right.

Bouke

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[Erik Pontius]

MXF media is stored in the “Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1” folder and so on.
also, you can force Avid to rebuild the indexes by deleting the msmFMID.pmr and msmMMOB.mdb from the MXF and OMFI folders. This will cause Avid to re-inventory the files and build a new database… Which will often bring your files back online.

Erik

[James Burke]

Is the system you’re bringing the project to on Unity? I had this problem brining a stand-alone project to a system on Unity. The media is in a sub-directory of the media files folder.