Rebuilding media databases not working

[Glenn Sakatch]

Simply this whole thing to figure out what the issue is.

Move your Resolve media to a folder called “Project_Name” from Resolve.

Move those 1 level up from the MXF folder.(or just delete them…we’ll recreate them later)

Make sure there is now no MXF/1 folder.

Go to Avid and import a still into your project. Tell Avid to create that media on the external drive you are using.

Does this create a “1” folder now?

If not there is a permissions issue with that drive.
If yes, go back to resolve and select an avid round trip preset in the delivery page and tell it to render to that “1” folder. No subfolders, just straight into that “1” folder.

Launch Avid. Hopefully Avid will now rebuild the database and you can import that database to get your media.

At this point you can delete those original renders out of Resolve.

Glenn

[Alicia Ramirez]

I am trying this now and yes a mxf/1 folder was created with the appropriate .mdb and .pmr files and Creating folder made. I went into DaVinci. Rendered to MXF/1 and then opened Avid and the same message came up which is Disk File not Found: error validating media….etc Same problem.

However I spoke to the editors and producers and now they just want me to render a final cut compatible project which should be much easier right? because i started from an xml from FCP 7, so it should be easier right?
WRONG.

Now I am getting a message that says unable to render to selected path as it does not have write permission from DaVinci.

And yes I double checked the write permissions of DaVinci multiple times and restarted it after changing the selected path. Could you men please give me an answer that isn’t an obvious solution? So far all I’ve gotten is the op1a versus opAtom advice from William Busby. But now that doesn’t necessarily apply to this problem.

[Glenn Sakatch]

You might want to try to a local drive instead. Something is clearly off with the permissions to that drive. Avid seems to have permissions to write to it, as it created the “1” folder. I’m not sure why the Resolve media isn’t behaving.

Next troubleshoot step would be to copy your resolve media to a local drive.

Same thing…if you don’t already have an mxf/1 folder structure on the local drive, get avid to create one, using the same technique, then copy your resolve renders into that folder.

(You tell avid to create the media on a specific drive by selecting that drive when Avid asks where to render the file to, or on import, what drive you want to import the media to.)

I don’t think you will find going to FCP any easier. The issue is probably with that drives setup. I go from Resolve to Avid all the time. The media Resolve is creating will be compatible. Avids issue is not being able to build a database, which is probably still some permission setting.

Try going to a local drive.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

also, if you can post one of the smaller video files that resolve output somewhere, I’d be happy to see if I can get it to load…our output a 2 second section from Resolve and upload that.

Make sure its a video file, not an audio file. It should have the V01 in the file name, not the A01 or A02.

Glenn