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Missing Media
I moved some of the media form my hard drive to an external dive linked by USB to make space and now AVID cant find that media- it keeps coming up with “Media Offline”. I tried relinking the offline clips but AVID still cant find them even though, frustratingly, they are sitting in that external drive. Meanwhile AVID is accessing everything else on that external drive just fine. What am I doing wrong?
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6 Replies
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You’ll need to make sure that you’ve put the media on the new drive into a folder on that drive called OMFI MediaFiles (Check the old drive where you copied the files from for the proper syntax). Then you might also need to delete the database files from the old drive you copied the files from, look for msmfmid.pmr and msmmmob.mdb and delete them. The next time you start up Avid, it will rebuild the database files and your media should no longer appear offline.
Just a note, USB is not the best to do your editing from…usually preferable to use firewire for external hard drives used for editing.Erik
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Also, make sure in your Media Creation settings that you are not filtering drives based on resolution.
Erik, why do you say that 1394 is preferable to USB? I have found that USB is just as fast, a lot more reliable, and less expensive to buy/build.
George
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didn’t work- media still listed as offline; I tried relining and that doesn’t work either
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True. Speeds between USB 2 and 1394 are similar. However, I think that the preference for 1394 over USB for video has to do with the underlying architecture of the technology. With 1394 the peripherals (drives, devices, etc…) are intelligent enough to be able to manage and resolve bus conflicts for data transfer without involving many system resources. With USB the system itself is doing much of this resolution, causing a performance hit. So this is important with realtime video capture and playback any stutter with the system can cause problems.
Erik
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What does your folder structure look like now on that new external drive. You should have one OMFI Mediafiles folder. Contained in that folder should be all your media files (there should NOT be another OMFI Mediafiles folder nested in this main OMFI Mediafiles folder). Also if you copied this media into an existing OMFI Mediafiles folder on this new drive (you made a comment about Avid seeing other things on this drive) you will need to delete the avid database files from this folder as well. That way Avid will rebuild the database files to include the new media as well.
Erik
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tried that too- still doesn’t work- this is getting frustrating.
to answer your question, on the new drive there is only one OMFI Media Files folder- there isn’t any other OMFI folder nested within that and I deleted the data files you mentioned and let AVID rebuild and still that media is listed as offline- when I tried to relink, AVID couldn’t relink with anything. Meanwhile its recognizing all the other media files on that external drive, which are within the same OMFI folder.
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