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What to do with the MXF files in old MC projects?
Hi! 🙂
I like importing via AMA, but it’s not stable and it doesn’t feel so good when I edit with it on my computer (although my computer is not that bad). That is one of the reasons I don’t like MC, because on Premiere it works fine.
However, I guess the solution is to do it the old way and import it, so that MXF files are created on my harddrive. But then I have on question about that. I like to save my old projects because it’s nice to go back and look and see what I did and so on. But the MXF files are a pain to have since they take up a HUGE amount of GB on the harddrive.
How do you guys that work with AVID on your home computer deal with this? Can you delete the MXF files and then link to AMA and look at the old projects?
This is a reason that I have why I shouldn’t work in AVID, but I would really like to get a good solution to this so that I can work in AVID without having to worry about this! Thanks!
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[Benjamin Lundin] “That is one of the reasons I don’t like MC, because on Premiere it works fine. “
Premiere and Avid are designed differently. Premiere is designed to work with media natively, Avid is not. If you like to work with media natively, use Premiere.
[Benjamin Lundin] “But the MXF files are a pain to have since they take up a HUGE amount of GB on the harddrive. “
Drives are cheap… If you want to archive, get bare SATA drives, 2TB for $200. Then get a SATA dock, like this:
https://www.amazon.com/3-5IN-2-5IN-480MB-Docking-cooling/dp/B001QTW9FS
[Benjamin Lundin] “How do you guys that work with AVID on your home computer deal with this? Can you delete the MXF files and then link to AMA and look at the old projects? “
I have a few external drives, a few internal drives…and a large 8TB Raid 5. And when I archive, I archive like I mentioned.
Shane
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Yeah that’s true, but sad enough I have to learn Avid sooner or later since I plan to going on a film school, and I would choose Avid over FCP there.
Yes that is true. I currently have altogether 3TB on my two disks.
I guess after I’ve read your answer that there is no solution to what I asked for. I will have to think about it then. AMA works for smaller projects, but for the big boys I will probably do it the normal way, or go with Premiere.
Thanks!
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Or…do what Avid is designed to do best…offline/online. Consolidate to a lower resolution, like DNxHD 36…edit, relink to the master files via AMA…transcode only what is used in the sequence to DNxHD 220x or something, save that.
Use Avid the way it was designed to be used. Working at full res all the time is something FCP and Premiere are about…not Avid.
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That sound great! That would makes it easier both to edit and to save some space on the harddrive. I will definitely try that out!
Premiere pro isn’t bad at all, but I think that it’s good getting used to work in avid more and more.
It’s a shame that almost no film school here in Sweden uses Premiere pro. It’s always Fcp and Avid. Well well, your answer makes a lot of sense and I’ll try it! Thanks!
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PPro still has a few bugs to work out. Media Management is worse than FCP, and that is saying A LOT. Relinking footage is a nightmare. It’s getting there…but not quite up to what we need in the broadcast TV/film world.
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Yes it definitely has. Another thing is that the trimming could be better. There should be a tool like top/tail (avid) which would make it very easy to trim in some situations. I’m also not a big fan of the trim mode. It should all be done directly on the timeline like in Avid and I think fcp too?
Do you mean relinking in Avid? Can’t you do it all at once?
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With Avid and FCP, you can relink with one step. Avid will find the drives and relink…with FCP you can point to a directory and have it relink everything in that directory. PPro…one clip at a time. It doesn’t do everything in a relative path. One…clip…at…a…time.
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[Shane Ross] “PPro…one clip at a time. It doesn’t do everything in a relative path. One…clip…at…a…time.”
Premiere does better than that. If you move a bunch of stuff and relink one file it will check the rest of that directory for matches to your other media and relink what it can. If your media is from multiple drives/folder you might need to relink one clip from each drive/folder, but it will find other stuff too without having to go on a clip by clip basis. I imagine it uses the same media management as AE, as AE will search a directory for offline media matches once you relink one file.
It’s not nearly as good as Avid, obviously, and isn’t as smart as FCP (there’s not search and relink option – you do have to manually find at least the first file), but it’s better than 1 clip at a time, unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
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It does sound kind of odd that you have to do it one at a time.
I guess I will have to ask my self the same question I do almost every day;
Avid vs. PPro
Avid vs. PPro
Avid vs. PPro
That’s in my dreams too.
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[Michael Hancock] “Premiere does better than that. If you move a bunch of stuff and relink one file it will check the rest of that directory for matches to your other media and relink what it can.”
SOmetimes…not most of the time. Most of the time I have to do it manually, almost every clip at a time…sometimes it finds 3-4. Other times, when I chose reconnect, it seemed to take a long time, talking 20 min, and found half of the files.
Mind you, I didn’t use this a lot, as this behavior turned me off and I went back to what worked better at the time. I rarely use Premiere, and I tried again when FCX came out…had the same reconnect issue (the 20 min reconnect issue).
Others report similar reconnect problems.
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