Rendered MXF clips cannot be imported into Avid Media Composer 5.5.3

[Michael Phillips]

Yes you can as along as you keep the Avid MediaFiles folder at the root level of whatever drive you are copying it to.

Here is what my Avid MediaFiles folder looks like right now. I have numbered folders I keep for organizational purposes. As long as it is a number, MC will index any new material being added to it. MC will always want to start with 1, then 2 when it does its trsnscodes and renders and will switch to the next number from there when it reaches its limit. Depending on projects and size, I will start with 11 for day one of a project, then 12 for day two, etc. leaving the first 10 folders for MC to do its thing.

Michael

[Glenn Sakatch]

No i read his that he put the folder, inside the 1 folder

Glenn

[Maicon Desouza]

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the reply.

I copied to multiple places, one trial at a time. I made a numbered folder in the AVID MEDIA>MXF folder. I copied inside the 1 folder. I made a subfolder. When I erase the .pmr and .mdb files, it re-indexes these files into Avid but still shows offline. I then import the AAF and it stills shows offline.

I tried relinking them not checking the “relink only to media from current project” and “matchcase when comparing source names just like multiple instructrions told me to but that still didn’t do it.

I also tried re-rendering it from DaVinci Resolve but still no luck.

I have a feeling the problem is in the files DaVinci sends out if I’m not mistaken but I don’t know what else to do.

[Maicon Desouza]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your reply. I didn’t try that. I will do that now and see what happens. This is interesting and hopefully this is the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I will let you know what happens.

[Glenn Sakatch]

Maicon, lets go back to the basics.

Make a folder called 55 and place it in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF folder. Forget about all the other folders in that area.

Take your resolve created mxf media and move it into the 55 folder

Launch Avid.
You should see the dialogue stating that Avid is indexing the 55 folder.

in avid, make a new bin, and make it so you can also see your 55 folder in the finder or windows explorer.

Go into 55 and drag the mdb file directly from the explorer window over into your avid bin.

This should populate your bin with all the media in that folder, and clarify whether the media is valid or not.

Glenn

[Michael Phillips]

And once you validate proper MXF, you still need to compare values in TAPE for both media and the imported AAF file. If they don’t match it explains why the AAF does not automatically link.

Michael

[Maicon Desouza]

It worked!

Thank you so much guys!!

This is how it worked:

I put all the MXF files that Davinci created (including the aaf) into a new folder “2” in the AVID MEDIA>MXF.

***The difference here was the clue Michael gave of moving the .mdb and .pmr files into that folder. Avid regenerated .mbd and .pmr files for the existing “1” folder. I had deleted it at first and even though AVID recreated it, it didn’t quite read it properly.

Than in AVID I imported the AAF file that DaVinci Resolve 9 created with my export (that came in the “2” folder).

and Voila!

It read everything perfectly.

Thank you so much guys!

[Michael Phillips]

The AAF file does not need to go in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/numbered folder and I would not suggest having files in there that are not expected.

Michael

[Maicon Desouza]

Thanks Michael.

I will keep that in mind.

It’s just that DaVinci Resolve 9 exported it automatically with the MXF files and I, for some reason, just kept it together.

But that’s a good note.

🙂