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File Mechanics
I have been editing on various flavors of Avid since the mid 90’s and have never fully understood just how files are handled within the Avid. I digitize, import and edit away without really knowing, or caring, frankly, what is going on in the hard drives. Now, for a number of reasons, I have become more interested. More specifically, one of the systems I work on has in addition to the Avid striped drives, a non-Avid hard drive where things like audio, photoshop and text files are stored. When, let’s say .wav file is imported into a project, is an OMFI file created on one of the Avid striped drives in addition to the original file? I guess what I am wondering is if original files stored on the non-Avid drive could slow things down.
Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
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When you import any file into Avid it converts it to OMF or MXF media (depending on your Media Creation settings). It leaves the original file alone (this does not include Avid’s new AMA function, or the Import P2 files if you’re not on Media Composer 3.5.x). This is one of the reason I love working with Avid–when it makes its own media is basically creating a backup and leaving your master file alone.
Having a disk full of graphics, audio, and movie files that you import into your Avid shouldn’t affect performance. I have 2 500GB drives in a RAID0 for my Avid media, a 500GB external for backups, and a 250GB and 1TB internal and 120GB network drive for my graphics, AE renders, photoshop and illustrator files, logos, etc…. They don’t affect performance at all.
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Thanks. Good to know.
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Avid Xpress Pro Mojo 5.6.7
WindowsXP 2002
HP Workstation XW8000
2.80 Ghz
2.0 GB RAM
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