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Transferring from PC to Mac
Hi,
Quick semi-urgent question that I hope you can answer. I’ve been working on an AMC project on Windows today and I’ve brought it home to edit on my mac (project files and avid media files). The project opens up OK but all the media is offline.
The drive reference for this media is the D: drive, which obviously can’t exist on a mac. How can I relink this media or change the drive reference to the one it is on now?
Thanks in advance,
EdGoing back to the windows pc and re-exporting isn’t really an option. Hopefully I should be able to relink what I have???
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If you consolidated the media from the PC Avid or OMFI MediaFiles folders, you should be able to drag it to the corresponding Mac MediaFiles folder, let the database rebuild and relink in MC. Search the help file for the “relink” command.
If you didn’t consolidate or export an AAF file with linked footage, your project may be referencing media that truly does not exist. Did you check your copied MediaFile folder after the transfer?
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I didn’t consolidate the media, it was a simple copy and paste job. Copied the Avid Media Files folder over and the project file. They’re both now just sitting on my desktop but this obviously isn’t the place for them.
Surely the media must still exist as all the media files are there – 16gb of DV mxf files, it’d seem to me that it’s all there. But in AMC it obviously still thinks they’re all on the D: drive when they’re not. Relinking doesn’t seem to find anything.
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[Edward Barton] “Copied the Avid Media Files folder over and the project file. They’re both now just sitting on my desktop but this obviously isn’t the place for them. “
The desktop is no good. Your media must go in the root of your drive, like this:
C:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1\media here
Now I wouldn’t suggest using the C: drive since that’s your system drive, but if it’s all you have then you’ll have to.
Just shut down Avid, put your media in the root of your media or system drive in the file path I typed above, and relaunch Avid. It should automatically find and relink everything.
Michael
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Did the trick perfectly. Thanks for the help.
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