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guide: avid roundtrip workflow (7.02 temp workaround)
For people attempting to generate MXF files that they can relink to their avid projects.
This is an overview based on my 29.97 timeline. I won’t get too specific, because your mileage WILL vary.
(note: this applies to 7.02. In 7.03, reel name detection is rumored to be supported.)
- Consolidate your avid timeline with handles.
- Export an EDL from Avid.
- import the media and EDL into resolve, expand with max handles.
- render as unc_8bit_rgb QT (to avoid gamma shifts) at 30fps.
- Download and open Metacheater, and import all QT in.
- change framerates to 29.97 and add tape names to match Avid sources.
- Generate ALE file.
- Import ALE into a new Avid bin. (don’t set log options to merge) Now you have a QT based offline.
- Batch import to fill offline clips with QT sources.
- Avid now has all your QT’s converted to MXF.
- Move your old MXF media out of the “Avid Mediafiles” directory. Your original proj will go offline.
- Select all the clips in your original bin, relink master files (don’t confine to current proj though)
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Wow. This is clearly not a workaround that anyone grading a longform project would ever want to do. Perhaps BM should have tested the Avid workflow before releasing and charging people for Avid DNxHD licensing. Hope they work it out quickly.
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