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Online RED Project from Avid. Trying to relink spanned clips.
I have exported an AAF from Avid and am trying to manually relink the clips to the actual .R3D file, but the problem is that the files are spanned, and the ‘Link Media’ function takes you directly to a finder window, so the R3D’s are split out as _001, _002 etc…
Within the Media Browser, the R3D’s show up properly, but I haven’t found a way that I can relink Media from the media browser. Because the clips are spanned and the timing is offset, none of the clips link up with the right timing.
Is there a way to Relink or Replace media directly from the Media Browser rather than a finder window?
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5 Replies
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The spanning does not matter. Select the first R3D file when relinking.
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When choosing the first clip of a spanned R3D clip, it offsets the timing of the clip in my Avid AAF timeline that I’m trying to relink to, and makes it so each clip in the timeline just starts at the very beginning of the R3D. It totally disregards the actual timing of the In and Out points that should be present in the clip meta data.
That’s why I was trying to find another way to relink it, because I suspect that it’s the spanned clip that is causing some sort of timing issue.
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That is pretty weird because pretty much every program I’ve used red footage with “builds” the spanned clip no matter what file I import from that span.
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Yeah, it does ‘rebuild’ the clip, but all the timing of the clips in the actual timeline get messed up. The thing I’m trying to do is bring a timeline in that was edited in Avid, so it isn’t just a matter of relinking a clip to the right media in the bin, but the timing of where all the cuts occur in the sequence has to also remain accurate.
As it is now, when selecting the first clip of a spanned .R3D, each clip in the timeline just becomes the first frame of the .R3D, so I have a whole sequence full of shots of the slate.
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Dustin, did you ever find the answers you sought regarding reconnecting to R3D files?
I too have a project edited in Avid MC, but needs to be AAF’d into Premiere Pro and uprezzed to the original R3D files. Thank you for your posts.
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