Working with Media Composer 8.0 on a laptop?

[Glenn Sakatch]

You can see the difference between the linked clips and the transcoded clips by the icon. linked clips have the little chain.

Typically I put my linked clips in a folder/bin configuration labeled “original links” I quite often do offline/online workflows, so I like the ability to go back to my original links, and I don’t like having to relink hundreds of clips at the end of the process, so I keep my links around.

If you still have the links, separate them into other bins.

I’m trying to remember in V8.0 if upon transcoding clips, did all the linked clips change over to a regular clip icon? (no longer showing the difference between transcodes and links?)

If you can still tell which are links, and you want to delete them, then go ahead and delete them. Deleting a linked clip doesn’t delete the original media, just the link to it that you have created.

If all your clips now appear to be transcoded media, but you have duplicates, then you should at least have a .new in the naming of the new clips? The other clips would be your original links.
If you want to delete those, just don’t delete the associated media with those clips.

If unsure as to what you can delete, and what not to delete, just remember, if you go to delete a transcoded clip, you have the option of deleting both the master clip, and the associated media (transcoded media)from that clip. In your situation, you do not want to delete the associated media, so don’t hit that checkbox.

Anytime you accidentally delete just the master clip (without its media) you can always bring it back in with the Media Tool, or by dragging a database into an open bin and finding the missing clip there.

One of the best things people new to Avid can do is play around with the media management system, and learn how to use it to your advantage. Yes it is very different that Premiere and Final Cut, but it is still very strong, and very flexible.

Glenn

[Ada Ya]

Hi Glenn I wasn’t specific enough in my other post.

I actually got duplicates of transcoded media, with the same name.
I had a Clips bin and a Sequence bin.
When I transcoded the media in the clips bin
I got.

clip1.new1
clip2.new1
clip3.new1

Then I transcoded the Sequence and got.

clip1.new1
clip3.new1

When I transcoded the sequence it created a new clip for every clip that was orignially used. As you can see here “clip2.new1” is not used in the sequence and therefor not transcoded.

The problem now is that I have files that have the exact name and are also transcoded.
I can manually look which file’s where created from the sequence and which one was not. Then delete the clips from the “Clips bin”.

Ohh, now I actually figgure out how I can do.
I first transcode the sequence, then go to clips bin, then -> Select unreferenced clips and transcode those.

Than I won’t get any duplicates.

Although I still have a problem that all the clips get’s unsorted.
Not as I’ve laid them out in the clips bin. The chronological order goes away.

[Glenn Sakatch]

If you had already transcoded the bulk media, there was no need to transcode the sequence. A simple relink operation could have pointed the sequence to the newly transcoded media.

If you look at your Avid MediaFiles/mxf/1 folder, and sort by date modified, you should be able to figure out where the duplicates are. If you are nervous about deleting media, simply take the newest version of each clip and move it up 1 level into a new folder.

Avid will rebuild its database, and you should see the original transcodes online, and the second batch online. From there you can begin the relink procedure.

If you feel you have mistakenly moved a couple of incorrect files out of the mxf/1 folder, simply locate them (they aren’t that hard to identify by their name, once you start looking closely at the naming convention) and move them back in. Again, Avid will rebuild the database.

Your next question will be on the relinking procedure, but that is another topic 🙂

Glenn