Stuttering Transcoded Video When Played Back in Avid 5.5.1 from G-Raid Drive Firewire 800

[Michael Phillips]

Most likely – the folder structure needs to look like:

[root level hard drive] Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1

Where 1 can be also be 2, 3, 4,

Each of the numbered folders are created once the “1” folder gets more than 5,000 files.

Michael

[Judd Maslansky]

Thank you. I am aware of the file structure. However
when you say the root level of the hard drive do you mean in the applications folder or just right into the Hard Drive folder. Also, I am on Mac OS 10.7.5 and I’m running Avid
5.5.1 (Educational Version) but I am currently downloading the update for 5.5.2 and 5.5.3 . Can I use these updates while running Mac OS 10.7.5? Can I upgrade to Avid 6.5 as a free upgrade? If you have any more answers for me please let me know. Thank you Michael.
Judd

[Michael Phillips]

When I say root level, it means that the “Avid MediaFiles”folder is not inside any other folder. Double click the hard drive, and it should be there.

Avid version matrix can be found here: https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/en267087

If you have a fully licensed student version, then you should have 4 upgrades as part of the that purchase. I am not familiar with the exact details and requirements, but I would start here:
https://apps.avid.com/education/

Michael

[Pieter Viljoen]

Wait, when he says he dragged it to the desktop, does that mean that he’s keeping his media files on the system drive?

[Judd Maslansky]

I actually copied over my media files folder to the root level of the hard drive. I also upgraded to Avid 6.5.3 and my system is running perfectly now. Thank you vvery much for your input!

Judd