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Part of Avid Media Files Offline
Hello,
I’m having a little problem with some footage in Avid that I got this week. The footage was consolidated by another editor so that i can now convert it to something more suiting for my purposes. (i actually want to edit on fcp, as I’m not doing really well with avid) As soon as i had opened those consolidated files i found that parts of them were offline, meaning that in my source window the media starts out being offlien and after ten minutes the picture starts to show. Ican hear some of the sound earlier though.
I’m not quite sure how that is possible. I’ve never seen anything like that before, deleting the Avid library files doesn’t seem to do anything. So now I’m stuck with approximately a third of the original footage available and the avid editor wasn’t able to help me with my problem. Does anyone know where this problem might come from and how I could be able to solve it?Thanks in advance,
Ronny Mueller
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3 Replies
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This means that the footage comes from a tapeless camera, like a P2 camera, and some of the files are missing. Avid MC will take the separate P2 files and stitch them together into one clip. The media is still separate files, but in Avid, they are tied as one clip. Unlike in FCP where a new QT file is made that is a combination of all those files. Where picture is missing, yet you still hear audio, that means that the VIDEO file is missing. If you see no picture and no audio, then both are missing (Avid imports the files as separate files, where FCP defaults to combining them into one file).
The editor who provided the files missed copying everything.
Shane
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Dear Shane,
thank you for your quick response. The footage was not shot on a tapeless camera but on betacam. Sorry that I did not mention this earlier. But I guess your still right about the editor forgetting to include some of the files. It seemed to me that he was pretty unorganized. it’s a real pain in the ass because i spend my whole tuesday travelling to him to pick up the footage. i guess i got to go down there again.
thanks again
Ronny
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Consolidating can be used for different purposes. It can be used, as the name implies, to consolidate all the footage to a single location. This is helpful for moving the project to another system. The other use for consolidation is to free up drive space. If you’re only using 20 seconds out of a 5 minute shot you can free up the unused 4 min and 40 sec by consolidating. If the editor consolidated the sequence, you’re only going to have the material used in the sequence plus the handles that he set for consolidation. If he consolidated at the bin level and the clips had in & out marks then any material outside the marks wouldn’t be included.
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