Exporting AAF issue

[Adam Harper]

Just switched everything to a Mac formatted drive and that worked!

Seems so bizarre that this should still be an issue for Avid.

[Anantha Perumal]

Hello.

I am having exactly same issue as posted. Like mentioned – I had two drives both formatted in NTFS (Using Paragon) one housing the project files and the other housing the Avid Media Files folder. I tried exporting an Audio only AAF for sound mix – with the Error mentioned in the OP. My settings were exactly as posted above with the only requirement being that the AAF must have the Audio embedded so inking to Media is not an option.
First I moved the project files into the same drive as the media, and made sure the media creation settings are all pointing to the one drive.
When I tried to Consolidate with a handle of 1min it gave the above error.
When I tried Copy Media – it just hung on me multiple times.

Then, like you suggested, I duplicated the sequence, deleted the Video tracks, and consolidated the entire sequence into the Second Hard Disk (Now erased and reformatted to MacOS Journaled). I copied my project folder and ejected the NTFS harddisk.

I reopened the project from the Second Harddisk and I tried exporting the AAF with the same settings.

When I tried to consolidate and export an Audio Embedded AAF it returned – “Exception Disk Access denies, filename: creating”
When I tried to Copy Media and export an Audio Embedded AAF it was successful.
(I’m waiting to hear from my sound guy if this works and if it does, I’ll have to follow the same process for all the other sequences. Im assuming this AAF will be larger than the consolidated one. If I cant ill do it, but id rather find out what Im doing wrong)

I’m trying to understand why consolidation didnt work in both the cases since it doesn’t seem to be an issue with the Hard Disk file structures. Is there anything about permissions Im missing? (I tried exporting to the system Drive but it wasn’t working either). I tried checking the Video Mixdown and export as .h264 800kbps Proxy but that returned an error too

Specs: I’m using a Seagate NTFS with Paragon which stores both the Avid Media Files and the project files. The second Harddisk is MAC OS formatted, houses a copy of the project files and the consolidated sequences clips in the AVM folder.
I’m running Avid Media Composer 8.4.4 on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4, 2.7Ghz,i5, 8GB DD3

The footage is all GoPro, first AMA linked and then Transcoded and the Audio was imported.

There is no issue with corrupted clips or timelines since I was able to export a low res DNXHD36 video file as a ref for Audio Mix.

Please help.

[Anantha Perumal]

Just an update –

After consolidating into the new Mac Formatted External harddrive and trying to consolidate and export an embedded AAF it returned an error when I stick to the project settings (PCM). When I force it to convert to .WAV the export goes through with an OMFI folder created on my HardDisk Root.

What am I missing here? Also will my sound guy need these OMFI files or are they embedded into the AAF?

Much Thanks