How do I load “Offline media” from a friend’s timeline

[Shane Ross]

The files must be on a very specific file path on your RAID. There must be an Avid MediaFiles folder on the root level, and in that a folder called MXF, and then in that, numbered folders. If the names differ by the smallest amount, Avid won’t see them. If there are any special characters in the RAID name, like “:!@#$%^&*() Avid won’t see them.

If there’s an OMFI MediaFiles folder, it too must be on the very root level of the hard drive.

Shane
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[Matt Chapman]

So yes, we only have the media managed files, but the MXF numbers seem to match up decently (starting with 001, 002, etc, etc).

Is there a way to point AVID back to the new (copied over) files? Or is it back to the drawing board.

Many thanks Shane,
chapman

[Shane Ross]

As long as they are specifically how I said they should be laid out, Avid should detect them. Needs to be EXACTLY like this:

If it is, and Avid still doesn’t see the media….go into the numbered folders and delete these files:

msmFMID.pmr
msmMMOB.mdb

Avid will rebuild them.

Shane
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[Pat Horridge]

If Avid can see the media it will show up in media tool.
So start there.

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[Michael Phillips]

Also no need to exchange AAF files between systems. Just copy the entire project folder to the other system to start.

Michael

[Pat Horridge]

To avoid odd project setting coming across I prefer to make a fresh project of the same name (so media shows up in media tool under that project) the copy and paste bins from old project into new project. Obviously old project needs to be located in a different location to new one.
But as long as project versions are similar projects should move around ok.

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[Michael Phillips]

Good point. If that is a concern, then create a new project from within MC. Close application and only copy the bin (.avb) from the old project to the new.

Michael

[Matt Chapman]

I think one problem we are running into is that the media is MXF, and I think they used pluralEyes or something like it to sync the media (which I don’t have). Thus the media all shows “Synced”. I can hear the sound but can’t see picture, it says “media offline”.

Is that of any help?

Chap

[Michael Phillips]

Ina PluralEyes roundtrip, it is jut metadata pointers to the existing media on the system where the events have been slipped on the tracks to be in sync with each other (changing timeline relationship to be in sync). When this AAF comes back, it just points to the existing media with the new relationships defined. From there, they can subclip out each of the events to create a subclip where it can point to two different sources.

If you go to the MediaTool, do you see any video assets at all?

Michael

[Glenn Sakatch]

Perhaps a screen grab of your media location would help. This sounds like you are simply missing the files. Is there any way the video was ama’d and the audio was imported?

Glenn