Dave Schweitzer
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You’ve got no information about your system in your profile. But on a wild guess I’d try the media storage.
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Are there any other devices on the firewire system with your mojo?
On Macs the mojo won’t function unless it has the firewire bus all to itself, maybe the same for PCs? -
Have you taken the previous volume offline? If the “old” OMFI folder is still visible to Avid, it won’t have any desire to look on the new drive.
If you’re on a mac, simply eject the “old” volume and relaunch AXP for an automatic scan and re-link. If you’re using windoze, and the drive is not external or disconnectable before startup, try hiding the OMFI MediaFiles folder in another temporary folder at the root of the “old” drive. When you launch Avid, it will create a new OMFI MediaFiles folder on the “old” drive, plus it should automatically find and relink the files you will have put in the OMFI MediaFiles folder on the root of the “new” volume.p.s try filling out your profile with your system specs…version of Avid, OS, processor, RAM, drive config, etc. It can help us try to help you more easily.
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Mike, is the CPR ftp the place to find older versions like you did? I’ve got a friend from school whom I also work with running Xpress 4.5 under OS9.
Like you, I took a dump recently and found his dongle will go up to 5.5. But where can I find the installer? The ftp site doesn’t have any versions older than 6.x. -
If done properly, the consolidate will recreate/duplicate all elements used in the selected sequence or elements selected in a bin onto a separate volume, leaving the original media in place. You can then copy the project and take the drive to another system to continue working on it.
If all you’re asking to do is change media drive locations for your current project, use MediaMover or MediaSift to isolate all the media files associated with your project, and copy them to the second volume. On the drive you wish to use in your edit, move all the omf files back into the OMFI MediaFiles folder and let the Avid rescan.
Or if the only project with media online is your current project, copy the OMFI Mediafiles folder to the new drive at the root level, and move the original OMFI folder into a temporary folder at the root level of your current drive, hiding it from Avid. When you next launch Avid, it will scan the drives and see the media in its new location. -
It all depends on how much you want to do in the other apps. A simple DV quicktime or avi export of your sequence will keep the native quality and compact filesize and can be played in either program. But if you want to be able to deconstruct your edit or need to reference original master clips and/or metadata like timecodes and reel names for the sources in your edit there is a more thorough way. If you do an OMF or AAF export, consolidating and embedding media, you’ll get a single (albeit large) file which I believe can be imported into Vegas or FCP, resulting in a sequence reflecting your Avid edit with all layers/tracks as well as a bin full of all the clips used to make up your cut.
You may or may not need help getting the OMF/AAF into the other apps if they don’t have all the pro features like Avid does. Automatic Duck is such a helper app to go from one app to the other, Sebsky Tools is another helper app, specifically for Avid and FCP. -
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Sorry, I thought I’d put the link in there. Must’ve forgot. Here it goes:
https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/1/134233/ShowThread.aspx
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The HVR15MU is a relatively new deck – does your Avid software have the proper deck template or are you controlling the deck using the Generic NTSC device template?
There is a setting in the audio output settings I think where the audio offset can be adjusted – not only does this affect playout, but digitize as well. So in theory you could make adjustments until the audio is captured in sync. In looking up the HVR25MU on the Avid forums I read that the deck template is supposed to be in the next version of Avid (AXP) but for PC users there is a proper template floating around. Here is a link to the thread where the 25 template is available to manually add to your deck choices.
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Okay, I’m having another thought here. NTSC DV and NTSC MPEG-2 for DVD share the same pixel size – 720×480, whereas 1:1 Avid is D1 height – 720×486.
You’ve probably never had any issues like this before due to that similarity. Since the mixdown was done to 1:1 in Avid, I’d assume its pixel size to be D1 – unless in your general settings > effect aperture you have it set for DV 480. Since a mixdown is an effect it’s possible that the aperture setting was adhered to and your video was scaled up to D1 height, stretching the DV 480 interlaced fields and causing all kinds of havoc. I’ve had similar results in AE when i’ve forgotten to adjust my comp size and rendered out.
Of course if Avid simply adds the extra 4 black lines at the top and 2 at the bottom (or 2top 4bot – don’t want 3 top and bottom or the field order is changed) then my theory would be wrong.
I’m not sure what the solution is, but it may be a point in the right direction.