[Dan Crouch]

Thanks for the post Glenn.
Very helpful. I do remember trying to consolidate some media to try and get around the exporting problem, I didn’t help so I have up, so that would be exactly right.

Problem solved.
All you post’s were very helpful and very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Thank you both for post’s very helpful indeed I will stick to that in future.

Can I ask just 1 more question?

Last night during exporting AAF, Avid was making a new folder, named 1. From what you are saying this is because there wasn’t enough room on any other folder for the new renders.

I thought it was doing so in error because in the new folder were lots of what appeared to be duplicate files…

Avid_Mob.0A02.D541B4C90.1.mxf
Avid_Mob.0A02.D541B4C90.2.mxf

The question is, are these dupe files .1 & .2? if not then Avid was simply making a new file as you say.

Thanks again for any help with this, I had a very late night trying to figure it out.

Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks Michael, that’s very helpful.
Can I ask, if I have 3 drives, can they all have folders 1-20 etc or should they be exclusive across all drives. For ex drive 1 has MXF folders named 1-12 drive 2 has MXF folders named 13-20.

Thanks again,
Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks for the post Pat.
No there is a very small amount of files in folder.

Last night out of frustration I renamed the folder with a few letters after the number to make it invisible to Avid. This has seemed to work and also has not taken anything offline.

This happened when I was trying make an AAF export last night for a sound mix today in town. It looks like during this process, Media Composer made a new folder (the probematic one) and the new MXF’s it created became corrupt in some way.

Can I ask what you make of this as I would like to avoid it in future.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Hi Michael,
Permissions are set to read and write.

Cheers,
Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks very much for your post’s guys.
I was actually being a bit slow, I was trying to format it from disk utility and not the LaCie software! I have since used this and it works just fine.

Thanks again for advise.

Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

I had the same.
I had to call up Avid support and a guy on the phone took over my mac and sorted it out.

[Dan Crouch]

That’s a better idea…

I did discover that dupe clips within the MXF folder will not cause a problem if they were copied across by mistake, which is what I must have done (cmd c cmd v). The clips are duped but a .1 is added, if there are multiple dupes a .2 .3 is added.

To solve the original problem I simply removed the folder from the MXF folder, created a new empty one in in it’s place. I then systematically colored a load of clips green, copied them from my old folder to the new folder within the MXF folder, re started Avid. If the mdb were re built and Avid started up I kept them green and if I got the error message I deleted them from my new folder and colored them red in the old folder.

In the end (3 hours later!) I had all my green clips working in the MXF folder and two red, obviously corrupt media files in my old folder.

It was quite long winded and dull beyond belief but it worked in the end.

[Dan Crouch]

I have solved this but can’t see where to delete post.
Dan.

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks very much for all the post’s.
I think I’ll go with version 8, it seems to be a relatively safe thing to do, especially as I am not doing anything that fancy, just straight cutting really.

Thanks again,
Dan.