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Not sure this helps but I’ve never had any issues with STL files but plenty with the Avid DS Files so I just don’t use them anymore.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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I never AMA Link anything if I can but especially Audio. AMA is the worst way that I’ve ever worked with for Linking to Media. I find that it becomes unlinked far to often and there are times when crucial Metadata does not show up in Avid. Yet I prefer Avid over all other NLE’s.
I use folder Management and if the Audio has to go out of house then Export an AAF with Embedded Audio like Shane suggested. If the project stays in house then I Export and AAF that Links to the Audio and PT will automatically link to the OP-Atom Audio in the Avid MediaFiles Folder. I also have the luxury of working with a guy who is real handy with scripting and programming so he wrote a script that copies only the OP-Atom Audio files to the HD that must go to the Audio Facility. That one is really nice because it stops the whining about how much DATA they have to COPY.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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Avid still supports some of there older versions of software and will occasionaly do updates to address bugs in those versions. I believe that it’s related to either older versions that are still in wide use by larger facilities or versions that deprecate there older Avid hardware. Version 5.5.5 was released almost a year after version 6 was out, this is the last version that supports the Adrenaline and the Firewire Mojo hardware. I still know people who haven’t upgraded from version 5 because of the large investments they made in Avid’s Adrenaline Hardware, so it kind of makes sense that they would do these updates.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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There’s going to be a pretty severe performance penalty even if it’s a USB 3 Stick in a USB 3 Port. If it’s a USB 2 Stick or a USB 2 Port you’ll likely want to chuck your machine after 10 minutes of running it off a USB Stick. No matter how fast USB Sticks are they’re extremely slow even compared to a Hard Drive and have no caching or buffering.
I usually use an SSD and spilt it in half for a dual boot system. Also make sure to hide the boot partition that’s not being used with fstab so the one OS doesn’t corrupt the other one.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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As far as I know and have found most of the BM Hardware does not output the embedded Ancillary Data in an HDSDI Signal.
I also believe that Avid is the only software that will, either with the Nitris DX or the BM Artist DNxI/O.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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Do you have just a mono or stereo tracks in your timeline.
If so just do an Audio MixDown and then move the mix down over the track(s) that are giving this issue.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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If you follow this guys instructions all security updates work without any issues.
I find his instructions more complete than the ones on the site of the guy who made the patcher file.
I’ve installed Sierra on 3 – 3,1’s without any issues.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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I generally use a 2012 5,1 but I just thought I’d comment on your issue.
I do have some 2008 3’1’s and I found them problematic with EL Capitan and Resolve 14.
I did the Patch Upgrade to Sierra on them and all those issues went away.Here’s a link to a website that explains very well how to do it.
It’s not the website were you get the patcher from but this guy explains it better.https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/02/23/install-sierra-unsupported-hardware/
The link doesn’t seem to work properly so I will just paste it in.
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/02/23/install-sierra-unsupported-hardware/\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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Sorry Dave but QT Reference Movies are a huge time saver in some cases and I disagree completely with your point of view on them. I do a lot of dailies for TV Shows, Docs, Movies etc. and when all my Video Clips are Synced to the Audio I export Ref Movies and let Media Encoder make the H.264 Daily Viewers while I continue making the Multicams in Avid. Can be a difference of getting home at 6-7AM instead of 9-10AM. There are of course places where they should never be used like exporting a Ref Movie of a Timeline. They were never meant to Reference dozens or hundreds of clips, cuts and effects.
To open Ref Movies properly QT 7 should be installed on your system, on Mac 7.6.6 for Snow Leopard works all the way up to Sierra. A lot of compression software doesn’t support them anymore but in the case of Media Encoder if I Export the Ref Movies with the “Mixdown Audio Tracks” option checked then they encode with the correct Audio that’s perfectly in sync.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”
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When you export to ProRes 4444 from Resolve you need to set the Video Output to Full to get the correct Video Levels. Not sure why this has never been addressed by BM but maybe they will in the future.
\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTTO: If you think three copies of your Media or Projects 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.\”