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can’t relink a bin into the project
april 5th 2006_12:54(spain)
i will try to explain my problem as clearly as posible, difficult job, and please forgive my english: using avid express 3.5 I had the bin with the captured files (omf and aiff) in an external hard drive, I unplugged the drive’s usb and obviously the bin went “offline”. I then connected the drive again but the files remained “offline”, so I decided to relink the files manually, but it wouldn’t relink them. Then I tried to import them into the bin and part of the clip reapears, part of the video and all the audio. I’ve also tried batch import but will not get anything else into it.
I’ve thought about the fact that the deatabase file of avid has gone wrong, is that possible? does my problem have a solution, without capturing again and starting from zero?
This edit should be finished by friday, i spent 10 hours yesturday trying to solve the problem… I couldnt….WHAT CAN I DO?
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2 Replies
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Try the relink again, be carefull when you reach the relink option, don’t tick @rekink only to present project, and tick all available drives…
Failing that, the media tool should show all the clips correctly, regardless. copy from the media tool to a new bin, then highlight your sequence and the clips in the new bin and, relink to selected…
Make sure the mediafile folders on the external drive are still correctly labeled or avid won’t recognise them.
The danger of importing the clips from the folder into a bin is that avid won’t recognise the links between audio and viseo files, leaving you with seperate clips for each…
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“don’t tick @rekink” now THERE’S a typo 😀
I believe all you need to do is delete the 2 database files (of course not while Avid is running) for that drive. When you start up Avid again, it will rebuild the database files & your media should be as it was before.
hth
Bill
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