moving media files between media composer and Xpress pro

[Richard_victoria_bc_canada]

Hi Johnny,

Yes this will work if both of your systems are of the same vintage as you need the machines to read the media. ie: nubus, abvb, meridien etc.

We do exactly what you are wanting to do – and we do it daily between 4 expresses and one media composer, all of which are ABVB.

Richard

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Still using five Avid ABVB systems.

Richard Games
Victoria, BC, Canada

[Dave Schweitzer]

Since Xpress PRO works only with DV25 DV50 15:1s 1:1 (Mojo Required) or various Film Composer resolutions, the Composer media will already have to be at one of those resolutions, or converted on import. From what I remember, Avid broke the conversion feature after AXP version 4.3.5, but I believe I read somewhere that current versions of AXP have restored that feature. If you have time try an OMF export of a portion of your sequence with media consolidated and embedded. Makes for one big .OMF file which contains the timeline and all clips contained therein. On import of this file, AXP will present you with a bin full of all the elements and your sequence as it was when you exported.

Good Luck and kindly let us know how you fare…?

DS

[Johnnysouthside]

thanks for all that. I will be buying the latest version of xpress pro for this project, does anyone know if it does support conversion on import.

I had thought of doing an OMF but since the sequence will be around 90mins, I forsaw problems creating it. I have had systems fall over tring to create just audio OMFs of two hours. anyone regularly make video omfs of this size?

cheers

johnny