[Ben Wilson]

As long as you are mounting them on a MAC, I think you should be able to mount them. I’m pretty certain that MAC OSX is backwards compatible with the MAC-OS9 filesystems.

I work primarily in the PC world, but have to maintain at least some exposure to MACs. Particularly since I have to enable our PCs to read MAC partitioned and formatted drives.

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The SCSI IDs on the drives are not that important other than making sure they are all unique. And are not set to 7. I imagine you biggest problem was the terminator not being installed. It’s surprising how many issues can be created by unterminated connections or bad terminators.

The only reason you would want to have the drives on separate ports would be if you are working with high resolution video and have high stream counts with your timeline. It’s simply a throughput consideration to distribute the drives across controller ports.

Now, a BIG question. Were these originally on a MAC or PC based AVID? And are you connecting to a MAC or PC?

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All connections and configurations must be done with the power off.

and yes, termination is refering to using the little box that only has one connection on it. If it is a terminator purchased from AVID it will have some screen printing on one side with an AVID part number and possibly a description of what the device is. If has printing on it, it will say SE/LVD terminator, or something like that.

It may also have a led on the back that will light up green when the connection is good.

Are these the only 2 drives you are putting on the SCSI bus?

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1.) You really need to have each of these drives plugged into separate SCSI busses for optimum throughput.
2.) ANY SCSI buss you have connected MUST be terminated.
3.) If you only have 1 SCSI bus to connect the drives, then you CANNOT flip the SCSI IDs to the same number. Connect the first drive to the controller, loop the first drive to the second drive, then terminate the second drive.

4.) Also DO NOT under any circumstance use SCSI ID 7. That is the ID for the controller card.

Hope this helps.

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I see you have given up, and I don’t blame you. For what it’s worth I will share our 1 Automatic Duck experience.

We transferred a sequence and the media from FCP 6 to a Windows based AVID. WE discovered in the process that we had to manually move the AVID Media files that Automatic Duck created into the appropriate AVID Media Files folders. Automatic Duck created the AVID master clips and formatted the media into the appropriate AVID media files reference bye the master clips.

It has been a long time, but I think we imported the sequence into AVID, closed AVID and then manually copied the media. This meant the the video files had to be copied into the “//yourdriveVolume/AVID MediFiles/MXF/1” folder. If I remember correctly, the audio was AIFF audio indicated with a .aif extension. These files we had to manually copy into the “//yourDriveVolume/OMFI Mediafiles” folder. When we started the AVDI back up, it rebuilet the media databases and all the media was online.

That was using Automatic Duck to reformat the media to be AVID media.

Don’t know if that will help, or if you will even bother, but I just saw the thread….

If it helps, great, if not, sorry I was a little late on seeing this.

Cheers,

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Hi Ray,

I imported AVCHD files from a Sony camera with no trouble using Media Composer 5. I experimented with importing the .mts files from the camera direct and using the clip management software that came with the camera to extract the clips and place them in a folder to work with. It work without a problem both ways.

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And filler is actually nothing. nada. not even black. Just a blank space in the timeline…

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I recently shot and edited a wedding for some friends using a Sony AVCHD camera and MC5. I used the Sony PMB software that came with the camera to transfer, log and create new clips from the bits I wanted from the camera. The Sony stored the video in chunks due to the file system on the internal hard drive, so the PMB software was actually necessary to marry the file pieces into whole clips for import into the AVID. Very much the way Panasonic handles P2 media.

There is no AMA plugin for AVCHD at the current moment. I don’t know if AVID has any plans to implement AMA for AVCHD. The import/transcdode to DNxHD worked very well for me.

I tried PPRo, which does link directly to the file, but playback was very ugly. Not smooth and pixelated to beat the band.

I edited the AVID DNxHD over a 1GB ethernet connection without much trouble. Since I was using a 1080i/59.94 project it was DNxHD145.

I haven’t gotten around to addressing the archive issue. I have both the raw footage folders as well as the AVID imported footage to consider.

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Hi David,

Even if you are the only user on the Windows machine, a user profile can sometimes get corrupted. I have had weird things happen after software installation/uninstallation. Can you recall the last time that everything was working normally? Maybe do a system restore back to that time or a time before that?

that would be the last thing I can think to try before doing a re-install. Not being able to move or copy from one bin to another can be quite annoying. Probably not exactly a killer, but annoying.

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Hmmmmm. that’s a weird one. I have never seen that behavior. I have seen where permissions on the bin files get wiggy and you will get an ACCESS DENIED error, but not what you are describing.

Have you tried searching AVID’s knowledgebase?
https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp

or the user forum on AVID’s website?
https://community.avid.com/forums/

I usually check those 2 places in addition to here.

Have you tried creating a new user on the laptop, or a new user in AVID to see if that behavior persists?

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