[Brent Marginet]

One more quick addition to explain the method to my madness.

I get hired to work for a small production company on a regular basis that had a so called SAN built for them by a Network Administrator. Seems Network people think that a SAN is just a bunch of Hard Drives that anyone can have access to. They fail to realize that a SAN must be much more than that. This so called SAN has constant issues and they refuse to pay another red cent to put in a proper system. First problem is that more than one user can mount a Volume as R/W and the second is that many times a Volume will not mount as Read Only. Lastly many times a Volume mounted as Read Only doesn’t work properly.

Anyway I digress. The result is corrupt Databases on a regular basis.
So if I keep the numbered folder scheme I can force everyone off the system then trash all the DB’s and let MC rebuild them all. If I had to constantly name and rename these folders I think I would hang myself.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Is there any particular reason why you can’t just make a 24fps BluRay.
There really should be no reason why you would have to use 23.976.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Yep you are correct and I’m wrong, haven’t done this in such a long time I forgot about it.

I have just have ended up in a few to many situations were Avid loses link to the Media and had to toss all of the Databases so that Avid could rebuild them. Not viable to rename all of them, rebuild the DB’s and then put back the original folder names.

For reference I keep a folder inside of the Avid MediaFiles folder with info about what’s contained in each folder.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

If your talking about AMA Linked footage then folder names are irrelevant.
If the media is Avid OP-Atom media in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF Folder it must be in a numbered folder only.
It has always been like this with Avid and has never changed.

Actually I take part of that back.
Avid will see the footage in a folder named DAY01 however if the Databases have to be rebuilt it will not do so unless you change it to a number first. So if new footage were dropped into that folder Avid will not rebuild these DB Files. This would also be very time consuming in situations were all or many of the Databases had to be trashed and rebuilt.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

I haven’t tried this but I do believe that Handbrake will only work with the Audio that’s embedded into the VFR Footage.
If one is recording double system I doubt that the recorders audio will stay in sync with the converted footage.
While it does convert to a constant frame rate it’s averaging it so how can it possibly stay in sync that way.

One more point on the iPhone issue.
Think of how many great moments would be lost if one had to bring a truck or trunk of gear everywhere they go. First lets remove cost from the equation. Now then, oh hey everyone stop so I can spend the next half hour setting up this gear to capture your random once in a lifetime moment. It would also be quite amusing at any event if everyone plopped down all this gear. There would be more gear room taken up than the people would.

If one can just pull something out of there pocket and grab it in moments then that’s whats going to happen.

One more for the pile of I DESPISE VFR FOOTAGE, but I do agree that it’s time for everyone to embrace it because it’s not going to go away.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

[Nina Lucia] “Any reason why you don’t just name your folders “DAY01″ etc.? That’s what I do for dailies.”

Yes actually the reason for 100, 101 etc is that Avid will only look inside of numerical folder names inside the Avid MediaFiles/MXF Folder structure. If theres any other character it ignores it entirely. That’s also why in my second post I suggested rendering to a folder called NEW in the MXF Folder and then changing it to a numbered folder once your render is done. This way if you want to or have to open Avid during the render it doesn’t try to quarentine the files that aren’t finished rendering.

[Nina Lucia] “And if I have more than one project I’ve prefaced it with a three letter project code. “

I do like this idea.
I’ve just always suffixed it and out sheer of habit will likely forget to try this.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Thanks for this info on importing .scc files into Avid.

I’ve had some issues in certain Versions of MC where no matter what I did with the SCC file I could only get the CEA-608 CC. Luckily the CC people I work with use Mac Caption and are able to give me AAF CC files. Ok course Avid managed to somehow completely break that from 8.8.2 to 8.8.4 and 8.8.1 would only bring in the SD CC from an AAF.

Thankfully version 8.8.5 fixed that.
After more searches I see that the best way to get HD CC out of Avid is to use the AAF CC Files.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

Are both the Audio and Video delayed on your TV and if so are they both delayed the same amount. In short are they still in sync on your TV.

Even Avid with Avid Hardware has a small delay between the Viewer inside of Avid and it’s output hardware. DaVinci Resolve does as well with Blackmagic hardware so this is not out of the ordinary.

What is out of the ordinary is that it’s delayed by about a full second.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

One other way to manage the new Media is to Render it to a folder named “NEW” inside of the “Avid MediaFiles/MXF” Folder. Once the Render is done rename it to a numbered folder and then start up MC.

As with the second tip on folder management for Avid it will ignore any folder inside the “MXF” folder that has characters other than just numbers.

By the way I’ve read in a couple places not to use numbers above 100 but I used 1000000 just for the heck of it once and Avid had no issues with it at all.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”

[Brent Marginet]

This response may be a bit late but here we go anyway.

Are your DNx36 files in the Avid OP Atom Codec.
If they are then they would all reside in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF/# folder.
# being a numbered folder. 1 is what Avid defaults to when you import or transcode your media. You may have more than one numbered folder depending on how things were setup when the media was imported, transcoded etc. When I do dailies with Resolve as an example I put the Test Day Media in 100 and then DAY-01 in 101 and so on. Helps me keep track of it when problems arise with media from a particular days shoot.

Ok so anyway if all this media is in a numbered folder(s) then Avid will build two database files in each numbered folder. To get this Media into a Bin right click inside a Bin and select Import Media, now navigate to the numbered folder. Look for a file that’s named msmMMOB.mdb and import only that one file. You should now see your Bin Populate with all the Clips that are contained in that particular folder.

Hopefully this will help you if not for this project then maybe one in the future.

\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”