Editing Alexa files in Avid Media Composer

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When you load a sync clip into the source monitor, you can choose which TC to display. V1 will show you the picture’s TC, but A1 (or A2) will show the original TC for the sound clip.

Also, you could copy (CMD-D / CTRL-D) the Start TC column for the imported sound clips into, say, the AuxTC1 column, which you could then have the sync clips display at bin level.

As for the multitrack thingy, you can’t easily “uncollapse” in MC (you can matchframe, but that would mean you loose subframe syncing), but normally the ‘uncollapse’ is done in sound post.

If you supply Pro Tools based sound editorial with an (unconsolidated) AAF and all linked media, plus all original BWF files, PT allows them to designate picture editorial’s production sound tracks as Field Recorder Guide Tracks, and this will let them link back to all original tracks for the original BWF files.

Here’s a link to a doc I once drew up about it. It’s a bit dated, and modern versions of MC and PT allow for more flexibility (like the ability to relink to BWF-P files, not just M’s).
terburg.home.xs4all.nl/Publications/Multitrack Approach_110830.pdf

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P.S. MC now does have an option in AutoSync that lets you choose how many tracks (or actually which track range) you want to include in the AutoSynced clip.

PT 10 needs you to right-click on a track to designate it as a Field Recorder Guide Track – in v9 that was not necessary. Some of this functionality already was available in PT 8.1, or so I was told.