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Project sharing on Avid
Howdy
I’m editing a one hour film on Avid Xpress 5.7 (mac) and am hoping to tag-team edit with a colleague. We are each cutting different segments within the film and then hope to swap them back & forth, each of us making changes as we go. We have two LaCie Terrabyte external drives with all the media on them (they were identical until we each starting working on our individual edits.)
Can we import the new segment timelines – without corrupting the media and existing timelines on our respective hard drives? I’ve just been warned that this may not be as simple as it sounds. Yikes! Any advice would be a great help.
Thanks, Alli
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I’d work two differently named projects, then just open up each others bins and copy sequences across and relink to the media.
It’s all quite feasable, the greatest issue is for you both to keep track of who’s dealing with which version and where!amheus
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Thanks Amheus. I was warned that relinking might corrupt the media, but if this isn’t a danger then we should be fine.
Alli
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I have a client in a different state that sends me a drive with media on it (he has the same media on his station.) I edit the piece and then email him the bin containing the sequence. He places a copy of the bin in his project and relinks to the original media. We have not had a case or corruption in twelve months of using this workflow. The only time we had an issue was when I used an effect he did not have. That didn’t cause a media corruption, just an extra step for him to figure what effect to use a substitute.
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Thanks so much. Are there any tricks to re-linking to the media when we swap bins? Also, we were warned that if we’ve made any changes to the media (ie: if either of us has made subclips), then we’ll have problems. Have you encountered any?
Again, many thanks. Alli
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[AlliFilms] “Also, we were warned that if we’ve made any changes to the media (ie: if either of us has made subclips), then we’ll have problems. Have you encountered any?”
Who in the world is giving you this information? Have they edited on Avid before?
Subclips won’t cause problems. They reference the original media just like a master clip, but instead of referencing the entire clip they look at just a small piece of it. It’s like taking your master clip and setting an In and Out. Marking Ins and Outs don’t affect your media, just like subclips don’t.
Regarding relinking–import the bin the other person was working on, select all the clips, then go to Bin–>Relink. Choose to relink offline clips to media, select your media drives, and hit OK. Chances are, however, that you won’t even have to do this. They’ll probably relink already if your project and the other person’s project are named the same. And you’ll definitely want to name them the same–it will make things easier when it comes to consolidating/deleting your media.
If you run into any problems as you progress, let us know. And you might want to take the information you’re getting from your source with a grain of salt–it sounds like they’ve never done this before and aren’t really sure how things work. 🙂
Michael.
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Thanks, Michael. That’s extremely helpful. Will send out an SOS if we run into problems… Again, thanks! Alli
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SOS: Hate to be a dolt, but… we’re trying to transfer a sequence bin from one HD to another. When copying the bin onto the External HD, it becomes a .avb file. When I try to import that into AVID, I get a prompt saying “The file format of SEQS.avb is not supported for import.”
I’m sure it’s an easy fix… anyone?
Thanks, Alli
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You should not import it. As long as it has the .avb extension (I assume you are using Windows) you can place it in your project folder on the finder level and it will magically appear in your project when you launch. You can also place the bin on your desktop or anywhere you want on the local drive and then from within Avid do a FILE/ OPEN BIN and navigate to your bin you placed in desired location.
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Thanks! FILE/ OPEN BIN worked (even tho I’m on a Mac). I tried to “relink” but it was unsuccessful. Still,I can open and play the sequences. Just want to make sure I’m not going to have problems once I start making changes to them.
When I try to drag these new sequences from the bin on my desktop to a bin I created within my Project, I get the following warning:
Mixing progressive source clips in an interlaced project can lead to problems with scrolling titles, digital cut, and video export.
Is this of concern? I’m thinking we might have made a mistake in not setting up my edit partner’s project properly. Mine is set up as a 35mm 4 perf match-back project and his is not. Will this come back to haunt us – and can we alter it at this point?
A million thanks for your help! Alli
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Yes, you need to have both projects set-up the same.
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