[Brent Marginet]

Could you put up some screen grabs of your deck control settings and the capture tool.
Maybe something will stick out so we can help you.

My other suggestion would be to Digitze everything in FCP and then AMA Link it in Avid.

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[Brent Marginet]

Wouldn’t that be called animation and not transitions.
Like say in After Effects.

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[Brent Marginet]

Transcode it to DNxHD or another Codec with Handbrake, Resolve or some other piece of software first.

Your not the first person to have Audio Sync issues with iPhone Footage.

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[Brent Marginet]

[Liz Parham] “the MXF original file properties say it’s “4 channel mapped to 4 mono” while the prores is “4 mono.” why? “

This may not help the re-link issues but go to the “Delivery” Page.
Then in the “Audio Tab” try changing the Track Setting from “Single” to “One Per Channel” or Vice Versa.

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[Brent Marginet]

Try connecting the output of the deck to a monitor or your TV with a Composite Video connection.
If you don’t see any Video then there’s either a problem with the tapes or the deck.

I’ve had many DVCPRO Tapes that just wouldn’t playback in the DSR-1500A.

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[Brent Marginet]

[Brent Marginet] “5.5 support but 3 cards: gtx 285, quadro FX 4800 and 4000.”

Not quite sure if this is a statement or a question.
Can you elaborate.

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[Brent Marginet]

[Liz Parham] “Do i want to manually go in and change the sequence settings to 4 mono or leave as is?”

You should choose a Sequence Preset that’s as close to what your going to use for this project as possible.
Choose ProRes, DNxHD or whatever Video Codec and Frame Size your going to use for your Proxies.
Then setup the Audio Tracks to at least reflect the Original Camera Audio plus however many extra you think you may need.
This is when you would setup at least the first 4 Audio Tracks to Mono unless your Camera Recorded more than that.
Now save this as a new Preset. You will then find this Preset at the bottom of the list in Custom Presets.
Load your new Preset and then start dropping media into the Timeline.
If you set this all up properly this should solve your Audio Re-Linking Problems.

Note: You must do this before you drop any footage into a Timeline.

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[Brent Marginet]

This is where you could/would use Resolve to create your Offline Media.
It allows you to choose “Same as Source” for the Audio.

Just make sure that the Reel Column is filled in for every clip by setting up the “Conform Options” in the “Master Project Settings”.
If the Main Camera(s) had Embedded Reel Metadata then use “Embedding in Source Clip File”
You will then need to modify the Clip Attributes for any extra Cameras that did not have the Embedded Reel Name.
Select just the Clips with Empty Reel Columns, Right Click, Select Clip Attributes and set only those to “Source Clip Filename”

If none of your Cameras had Embedded Reel Name Metadata then set the “Conform Options” to “Source Clip Filename”.
See the attached screen shots.

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[Brent Marginet]

Makes sense and I can absolutely see this as being a huge time saver.

I just did a test and it’s not renaming the old clips so it seems to be working the way you want it to on my system.
I am testing it on a Mac so if your on a PC maybe it’s only a new Windows related bug.
I also don’t see any Preferences that would change this behaviour anywhere.

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[Brent Marginet]

If I understand you correctly then just drag the Browser off the Toolbar and let it sit on your desktop as a separate window.

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