Moving an entire project

[Geraint Pari huws]

not much point moving titles – easier to recreate, you should be able to consolidate all imported clips to a new drive as you would tape derived media.

[Dave Schweitzer]

If done properly, the consolidate will recreate/duplicate all elements used in the selected sequence or elements selected in a bin onto a separate volume, leaving the original media in place. You can then copy the project and take the drive to another system to continue working on it.
If all you’re asking to do is change media drive locations for your current project, use MediaMover or MediaSift to isolate all the media files associated with your project, and copy them to the second volume. On the drive you wish to use in your edit, move all the omf files back into the OMFI MediaFiles folder and let the Avid rescan.
Or if the only project with media online is your current project, copy the OMFI Mediafiles folder to the new drive at the root level, and move the original OMFI folder into a temporary folder at the root level of your current drive, hiding it from Avid. When you next launch Avid, it will scan the drives and see the media in its new location.

[Matthew O’connor]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I can get MediaSift to copy all the files across to a different drive, but I can’t seem to re-link the sequences, titles and master clips to the new files. I’ve tried all kinds of configurations on XPress Pro’s re-link tool, but nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

[Dave Schweitzer]

Have you taken the previous volume offline? If the “old” OMFI folder is still visible to Avid, it won’t have any desire to look on the new drive.
If you’re on a mac, simply eject the “old” volume and relaunch AXP for an automatic scan and re-link. If you’re using windoze, and the drive is not external or disconnectable before startup, try hiding the OMFI MediaFiles folder in another temporary folder at the root of the “old” drive. When you launch Avid, it will create a new OMFI MediaFiles folder on the “old” drive, plus it should automatically find and relink the files you will have put in the OMFI MediaFiles folder on the root of the “new” volume.

p.s try filling out your profile with your system specs…version of Avid, OS, processor, RAM, drive config, etc. It can help us try to help you more easily.

[Michael Hancock]

When you transferred the files to a new drive, they are you in a folder titled exactly OMFI MediaFiles right? And it’s at the root of your drive? If so, do exactly like Matthew O’Connor said–rename the original OMFI MediaFiles folder something like xOMFI MediaFiles to throw it offline, then delete the database files in your new OMFI MediaFiles folder on the new drive, launch Avid.

By deleting your database files you’ll force Avid to rescan and relink–if you didn’t already delete them to force a rescan that might be a reason you can’t relink.

Mike.

[Matthew O’connor]

Deleted the database files and it worked. Thanks guys. I’ll update my profile next week.

[Tucklis]

tIS REALLY IS AN EASY THING TO DO…I DO IT EVERY DAY………All u have to do is consolidate all the original media to another drive making all links go to new location, then recreate title media…basically Job Done….anymore questions , write me…gareth@tucklis.co.uk