[Andrew Mckee]

I believe there is a problem if the path of file you are linking to contains a \ or some symbol, i can’t quite remember the details. Anything like that in the folder path of the file or volume you are linking to?

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[Andrew Mckee]

TV and Film production is not “the major market”. Of all the people who produce audiovisual content, it is a small fraction and as time goes on, it will become a tiny fraction. I’m all for giving students the ambition to reach for working in those markets, but you have to be realistic. There are simply way too many media students and way too few jobs in the TV&Film industry.

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[Andrew Mckee]

Very true Oliver, they do bundle alot into the Media Composer package that makes it more dynamic in terms of colour correction, effects, motion graphics and audio. But it’s still difficult to characterise it as a suite in the same way that Prouction Premium and Final Cut Studio are/were.

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[Andrew Mckee]

Check out this post by Walter Biscardi for a tip on getting Avid to see network storage that isn’t an ISIS.

https://library.creativecow.net/biscardi_walter/Avid-Media-Composer-6/1

Andy

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[Andrew Mckee]

Or even just go back to the DVD and rip it again with Mpeg Steamclip, this time do it to a mov. If you select an Avid codec then you will be able to do a Fast Import into avid, which is… well… fast.

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[Andrew Mckee]

Media Composer does come with Marquee for motion graphics (which I would rate somewhere between Boris Title 3D and Motion) which launches from within the programme. As mentioned by Richard, AvidDVD only comes with the PC version, but to be honest it isn’t that great anyway. Sorenson is really good, however.

I think the problem your having is that Media Composer doesn’t really market itself for lone gunman. Its really a niche product for people who use it to just edit and don’t tend to worry about the rest of the stuff. Unfortunately, if you wanat to use it for post from start to finish, you really have to combine it with another suite of products. As I have FCP7, I use Avid to edit and then grade in Color and use DVDStudioPro to author. Others use the Adobe Production Premium suite (I use After Effects, which Avid integrates pretty easily with, for compositing or motion graphics). For basic sound I quite like the tools in Avid and they have recently got alot better. For complex stuff, ProTools is amazing, but best handled by someone who knows the programme. This makes it all pretty expensive if your a hired gun, who’s expected to do everything from start to finish and its one of the reasons so many people went the FCP Studio route.

I have heard mostly good things about DS, but never used it myself. Its a pretty high end sytstem. Symphony I have used, and I cannont honestly understand why people buy it. For the cost, you could get Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects and probably a DVD Authoring package.

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[Andrew Mckee]

https://community.avid.com/forums/t/101235.aspx
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[Andrew Mckee]

I have successfully taken Avid projects between mac and pc based systems many time, both using ISIS and software that allows reading of cross platform drives. I cant vouch for premiere, but really the only hurdle I’m aware of with Avid is drive access. Have you successfully connected Avid to your stoarage solution before?

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[Andrew Mckee]

Maybe not what you want, but you could put the sequence in a bin on its own and then change the bin options to show reference clips. The AMA clips will be yellow.

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[Andrew Mckee]

I have definitely had it work if you mount AMA volume and then point it at a BPAV folder with the correct architecture, or any folder 1 or perhaps 2 folder levels above that. Not sure why its not working in your case, sorry.

Andrew McKee
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