Import error: cannot delete mxf

[Michael Kammes]

Not to confuse things more, but how are you importing an MXF?

I presume this an Avid MXF? Or, is itan XDCAM/P2 file?

If an Avid MXF, you can’t import an this. You need to place the MXF file within the Avid MediaFiles folder (and subsquently the numeric subfolders) and then use the media tool, so Avid recognizes it.

Avid usually tells you this when you attempt to import an MXF…so, if you can give us some more background on the MXF, that may help us help you.

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[James Beattie]

Can you import another quicktime file successfully? It may be a file format issue. How complex is the filename? Make sure there are no strange characters in it. Make the filename less than 8 characters with no spaces.

[Tom Bailey]

Hi,

I realised first of all that although I had changed the media creation settings, they may have been different when I imported the file. So I re-imported. Still had the problem.

Then I realised there wasn’t enough space on the drive I was working to, so I used a drive with more room and it worked fine.
This took a while to come to because the error message wasn’t about the drive exactly.

On the same project I had a different problem; when I exported the film it looked fine but when i burnt it do dvd the image was all crammed into the top half with a green colour in the bottom half.
I tried a H264 (as opposed to Avid 1:1) and it worked ok, except part of the export that had nothing on it in the avid timeline had the same problem.

Can anyone tell me what this is for future reference?

Thanks,

Bailey.