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Pre-exisiting AVID Project was a mess…
Ok here goes… forgive if this is long winded
I’ve been editing for quite a while but, I’m relatively new to the AVID (which I’m sure you hear all the time).
I recently had a client who brought me a project on a 300 GB firewire drive, Which initially I thought cool he backed it up all the files are on it and boom it should work. It actually opened up and played back and the whole nine, so I thought… First I found out later on in the timeline (about 6 mins in) that there was audio missing, okay no biggie the client calls someone who has some knowledge of this project and this person ftp’s the audio for us. Problem fixed. Next we have some clean up to do with a text file… then I find out that there’s more media offline.
In fact the more I try to fix this project the more holes there are that I find in this thing. My assumption is that Avid has all the rendered files to play back this project and as soon as I edit the project the playback files no longer exist. Needless to say this project took much longer than expected. The big question I have though is, If you see what you believe to be the files you are looking for on this drive is it possible that AVID wont make the association?I tried several times to relink media to no avail.
otherwise my only solution was to re-edit and that was not in the budget for this project.
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3 Replies
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Make sure you haven’t ticked “relink only to medai from this project”
Be systematic, find out what exactly is missing using decompose offline media only…is it tape based media, mixdowns etc etc
Check that all associated files are the same sample rate, if not convert them or allow realtime samp rate conversion in your audio project settings.
Talk to the origional editor,
amheus
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Corrupt database files could cause a variety of different “media offline” kinds of problems. Deleting the msmMMOB.mdb and msmFMID.pmr files from the OMFI Mediafiles folder (or Avid MediaFiles if your dealing with MXF) on the drive and starting up Avid again so it can rebuild the index could help.
Also, did they originally edit using this drive or copy the media from a different drive? Often Avid may place pre-computes for rendered effects in a different location and they may not have been copied over with the rest of the media.Erik
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Amheus and Erik,
thanks for the responses, both will help in the future, but I am now separated from this project
I appreciate the knowledge.
ejunyor
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