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Brian Ging
July 29, 2014 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Mac Media Composer 7 project won’t relink on PC Media Composer 7

Very true about comparing cross platforms, as FCP7 was mac-only. I just meant the linking ease. I also cut a feature on Premiere CS2 that was one of the worst nightmares of my life technically…

I think that as Avid works out its kinks it will get better, and the background processes in MC7 really help with transcoding not taking out the whole machine.

thanks again Pat.
Brian Ging
July 29, 2014 at 3:31 pm in reply to: Mac Media Composer 7 project won’t relink on PC Media Composer 7

Hi Pat,

I am almost finished with the consolidation process of moving the material from the linked Mac project via consolidating all synced clips to AVX files on a new drive. I tested this on a PC system and it works. I guess you are right, AMA is a clunky unreliable mess across platforms (and otherwise for that matter). I come from FCP7 and Premiere editing for 10 years where “linking” has never been an issue, other than putting it in the ideal codec (ProRes), and in the case of this project, it came to me transcoded into DNxHD already (with MOV wrapper) so I didn’t think there would be any issue with Avid linking to its own kind. I guess I was dead wrong. 😉

Thanks again all for the detailed notes and I truly understand better for future projects what to do, and Avid’s quirks.

Regarding DNxHD36, I received all the footage transcoded already to DNxHD175 and it’s being edited and finished in that codec. It was shot on Canon HDV cameras.
Brian Ging
July 28, 2014 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Mac Media Composer 7 project won’t relink on PC Media Composer 7

Ok great. Thanks guys. I will give that a shot. Thanks again Shane and Michael for your help.

This is a feature, so there are hundreds of synced clips and takes, so If anyone has a suggestion regarding a trick to relink the audio that might be less intensive than conforming 3TB of material, I’d love to hear it so I can get back up and online quickly, and then do the consolidation gradually. (I’m now editing the feature as well).
Brian Ging
July 28, 2014 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Mac Media Composer 7 project won’t relink on PC Media Composer 7

Hi Shane,

Thanks for responding but you gave me more of a finger wag than anything to help me. I’m posting because I’m not the expert you are with Avid and I’m new to all the ins and outs of Avid’s quirky as heck AMA system.

Regarding why didn’t I consolidate/transcode again, I didn’t want to duplicate all the footage on the drive especially since it was already in Avid codec and 16bit 48k. It shouldn’t be this hard to simply link an editing software to footage.

My goal is to relink the project I have. Please let me know if anyone has any help or resources to help me out.

Thanks.