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[Russell Anderson]

ohh god… I think I had an a-Ha moment…

What is the actual name of your drive? If you have any weird characters ($%*@!^&*#!@#) Avid will FREAK OUT. In fact, the NOT_FOUND error is the exact one it usually gives in that situation. Or if your media is inside any folders using unusual characters.

A good example is someone delivering a media drive from set named 11//15/12 DAY 01 or something.

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[Ben Mccarthy]

I’m guessing you’re not on Unity or ISIS, but we recently had problems moving either from Unity to ISIS or from 5.5 to 6, the difference was in the MXF bin I had to change all of the 1, 2, 3 folders to computername.1, conputername.2, computername.3 etc.

So I’d play around with that.

Try to change the folder to 1.1, 2.2, 3.3 and also try the computername.1, .2 etc

There’s also a command in console to force AVID to look at all of your drives, USB keys, FireWire drives etc as possible media drives.

Go to Tools, console and type: alldrives

No space, and hit return, restart MC

Also, if you didn’t give your files tape names you can cause lots of problems, you can also shoe reference clips in your bin and see which drive they’re supposed to reside on.

[Russell Anderson]

Hey Jon,

Did you ever resolve this? I’d love to hear how it turned out.

And yeah, we should definitely grab a beer sometime. I love meeting new post folks out here!

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[Matthew Waysdorf]

We recently moved a number of shows from on facility running a Unity to a completely different one running and ISIS and has similar problems at first. What you need to do first and foremost is import a file in avid to a bin – doesn’t matter what it is, color bars, a still, anything. Set the import to the drive that contains your media. Then right-click the clip and hit “reveal”, which will show the clip in the finder, then close out of Avid. That folder will tell you what all your media folders should be named. If it’s “1”, then successive folders will be 2, 3, 4, etc. If it is “computername.1”, successiver folders will be “computername.2, computername.3,” etc. A maximum of 5,000 files can be in any one folder in your Avid Mediafiles folders. If you approach 5,000, move clips to the next folder (computername.2, etc). Delete any and all msm database files and the “creating” folder. Then open Avid and let it rebuild the database. All your footage should be online, at the very least accessible by media tool. I made the FCP to Avid switch too, it can seem like banging your head against a brick wall at times, but eventually it clicks and everything works great. Good luck!