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Geoff Mutton
July 11, 2015 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Can’t seem to transcode

UPDATE: After it working once on the ‘old’ drive, I decided to try one more time – and it worked straight away.
How odd – I’ve changed nothing and done nothing but plug in the old drive I no longer use.

Further update: If I eject the old drive, it stops working again (even when I’m trying to transcode footage from the ‘new drive’ onto the new drive.

This project began life on the old drive. I suspect in my noob-state I’ve committed another Avid sin.
I just copied every folder across from the old (2TB) drive to the new one (4TB).

Does the project still think it’s living on the old drive, or something?
Sorry for the dullness and entry-level stuff. I’m still trying to get my head around MC after 15 years of Final Cut!
Geoff Mutton
July 11, 2015 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Can’t seem to transcode

Thanks for the reply.

Sadly, still no joy. The drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I tried importing an image to create an Avid folder and still nothing.
This is really odd, because I’ve had this working before.
I plugged in the drive I’ve had success with and it happily transcoded – so your instinct that it doesn’t like the drive seems correct.

Any pointers on ways of trying to get MC and my hard drive to be friends?
Geoff Mutton
July 5, 2015 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Any way to make playback not stop when I click on things?

Got it.
Thanks for the reply!
Geoff Mutton
June 22, 2015 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Converting .MTS files to ProRes but keeping filename intact – possible?

OK, well – I now know this is not the accepted way to go about this, but thankfully it doesn’t seem to be the catastrophe it might have been.

Myself and the post house were both able to AMA link everything right away without issues and they’re transcoding at their end.
Moving forwards though, I’ll keep the folder structures intact as you good folks suggest.

In order that this thread might be more educational for myself (and anyone in my position in future doing a search), is anyone able to clarify what metadata is lost by pulling out video files from the folder structure and what headaches it creates for post?

I understand that the codec information is probably contained in the metadata which helps the AMA linking – and that long continuous clips split across several files are dealt with this way. I’d be interested to understand more about what’s going on in there though.

As I say – I’ll keep my folders intact going forwards (if only because it cuts out a bunch of file handling tedium).
Always keen to learn *why* things are the right way too 🙂