[Andrew Mckee]

Unfortunately getting out of a sync issue basically just involves trimming the other way until the nubmers dissapear. It’s difficult to tell you what to do exactly witout seeing the sequence.

To avoid sync issues in future, you can turn sync lock on the tracks that need to stay in sync. Its the little button that turns into a kind of when you click it, next to the track selectors.

Alternatively follow these rules.
1) When extracting make sure you have all tracks that you want to stay in sync selected. If you only want to remove audio or video on its own use the lift command
2) When performing a single roller trim (ripple trim) make sure you trim all tracks that you want to stay in sync. You can add edits and trim those on tracks that don’t have clips at that point. If you want to just trim video or audio then use a dual roller trim or an overwrite trim.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

In MC5 the keyframe tool was in the smart tool, but in MC5.5 they saw sense and moved it. The button is just a below the smart tool and completely independent of it. So long as this is on and your track is highlighted you should get the hand icon and be able to move keyframes.

Andy

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Difficult to tell what you are getting at. In Avid, there is a Master Clip (which resides in the bin) and a Media File (which resides in the Avid Media files folder). Did you delete the master clip from the bin, but not the media file? If so, you can open up the media tool and search for master clips on the drive which the media file resides. This should bring up the master clip and you can then drag it into a bin.

You cannot import the mxf files directly. Although you can import the mdb file that resides them and this will acutally import all the media files in that folder as master clips.

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
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[Andrew Mckee]

Yes, once the files in are in the right structure, you should delete the database files within the folders so that Avid rescans them on boot. To give you a better way forward next time I will outline what is the correct (although slightly longer way) to move media.

1) Move the project folder from the source drive onto the target drive
2) Open up the project from the target drive
3) Select all the master clips in that project and consolidate them onto the target drive (making sure you select the second option to relink master clips to new media)
4) Optionally delete all the master clips (but not media files) that now end in .old

This way Avid already knows that the media is on the target drive and all the master clips and any sequences you have made link to them. When you send the target drive to your assistant and they plug it in, everything should just work.

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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[Andrew Mckee]

If you right click on an AMA clip you can bring up the Source Settings, you can change the saturation before you transcode. If the metadata from the camera has the saturation up then it should match that, don’t know why it isn’t.

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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[Andrew Mckee]

Trimming works almost exactly the same as avid if you double click on an edit to get into the trim edit window. You even get JKL trimming if you select the dynamic button.

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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[Andrew Mckee]

I’ve taught students MC and then FCP a few times. Couple of difference I always point out are that bins can go inside bins (so you don’t need folders) and the subclips won’t allow you to trim past their limits without a command (remove subclip limits). The timeline works quite differently too. They way I think of it is as if synclock is on by default and you have to lock a track in order to stop it being affected by it.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Not worth another post, you just can’t do it. They did introduce AAF’s, but if you want to do a QT ref you’ll need to consolidate or transcode first.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

You seem to be doing nothing wrong. My only thought is that MC5.5.3 is only compatible with 10.6.7 , 10.6.8 , and 10.7.0. Perhaps this is causing your problems?

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Unfortunately I can’t offer you a solution, but I thought I would chip and at least let you know that this is unusual behaviour and certainly shouldnt be expected. My instinct is to ask how you are connecting to the drive, but as you are targeting it as a media drive I assume that it is connected via USB/Firewire/Esata rather than over a network?

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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