[Glenn Sakatch]

I know with a dongle, you can run most earlier versions of Avid..i believe back to 6.5…perhaps earlier.

There was a posting back when all this new subscription stuff started from Avid (i think Marianne) saying that you can do that with a software licence as well, so you might just want to buy 8.4 and run 6.5.

Call avid to double check.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Dave, if you double click the key effect on your timeline it
Should open up for you, exposing the key and fill channels. Off the
Top of my head, I would think you would have to apply the effect to noth of those channels…otherwise the fill will look like water, but the hole being cut would still have a hard edge.

Boris might also have the “apply as a title/key” button within that effect.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I don’t think I would ever try to work with linked r3ds in Avid.

In Resolve I can get real time with half res, but that is using 3 graphics cards in my system.

I have had great success with prores…to the point where I don’t even think about it anymore. (I’m usually running on a pegasys 18 TB with thunderbolt)

H.264 would also get transcoded pretty quick in my room.

Don’t forget that your drives are very important in this scenario, not just the flavour of the footage.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I have found, on some rare occasions that the database doesn’t get recognized from an old or renamed project.

In your case my first instinct would be to copy my consolidated folder into the structure and name it Project x media 2013… or whatever date the original is from. If it is currently called “1” then it should already have a database. I would rename it, simply to track what footage is old, and what footage is new…from the changes you are about to do.

I would rename my current “1” folder, perhaps as Shane has recommended to “10” , or in my case, it would only have media from one project at a time in it, so I would call it according to my project. (I’m constantly naming folders to isolate project media)

Load up your old project and check that it all came back online. If it doesn’t, and it has happened to me, you may have to rebuild that original database from the consolidated folder. Go into that folder and delete the database. Copy the name of the folder into you computers memory and then rename it 666 (any number that is easy to find) select Avid (I don’t usually turn off Avid when I do this) and let it rebuild the database. Once that is done paste the name back onto that folder…from 666 back to Project x Media 2013.

Hopefully now it is all online.

I would then do all your changes as needed. Any new media will automatically be put into a new “1” folder. When the project is done, rename this “1” folder to be Project X media 2015 changes, and archive it with the original media.

Remember, any numbered folder in the MXF structure can have its database updated by Avid. Avid doesn’t just read the “1” folder, so any folders in that area will be read by Avid. The key is Avid will always try to write to a “1” folder, unless it has too many files in it, in which case it will move on to the next folder. If there is no “1” folder, Avid will make one, and start using it.

As soon as you add a letter to the folder name, Avid can read it, but can’t write to it..which means it can’t update the database inside it, but again, it can read the database inside it.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I don’t think so. Been fighting with this for a few years now.

I’ve tried opening the quicktime in a third party program and deleting the audio tracks, but it still comes into my box with all the original channels. Perhaps if you recorded xlr audio instead of embedded, but I don’t want to have to do that.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Yes, and as this discussion went on, it became less clear to me if he was trying to automate the bins as well, or just the folders.

Bins have to be done the old fashioned way, although as I said earlier, if he links to them, then Avid can create bins based on folder names. But linking to media, one folder at a time can be painfully slow.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

there is also the flying pig site, which is not followed too much anymore, but most of those guys are on the “we suck less” forums.

Do a search for we Suck Less and Fusion, and you’ll probably find it.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Its as easy as it sounds.

Without launching Avid, I go into my avid projects area from within the windows explorer screen. Inside that Avid Project folder structure, I create a new folder (right click new folder) same as you would in any other area in windows (or Mac).

In my case I made a folder called “made in Windows” I went inside that folder, and made another folder called “also made in windows” Inside that folder made another folder called “This too was made in windows”

I then launched Avid, loaded that project, and there was the folder structure. Inside Avid I made a bin, and moved it to the lowest folder inside that structure.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You can build folders in Avid by creating them in Windows Explorer. You don’t have to make the folders from within Avid, but the bins themselves do have to be made inside Avid.
Copying and pasting and renaming bins outside of Avid wont work.

When you AMA link, you can get Avid to create a bin based on the name of the folder your ama footage is coming from. From there you could move that bin into the folder structure you want. From there the transcodes will certainly stay in that named bin.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but some of the work you have done can be utilized.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Not sure what the deal is, but if I were trouble shooting this problem, I would start by minimizing the 18 audio tracks. If the audio mixdown is giving you an echo, then I would say it has nothing to do with your export settings..unless you are saying the mixdown is fine on your timeline, and echos only on export?

Either way, turn off all but the 2 main audio tracks and try an export. Bring that quicktime back into avid and sync up with your timeline…is it in sync?

What happens if you export your audio tracks in groups of 2 as a wave file, and re-import them…are they in sync with your original timeline

How long is your sequence?
Have you tried exporting only the second half? Does it stay in sync roughly the same amount of time before drifting. Does it start drifting at the exact same spot in the sequence.

Check your export settings, or try better yet make new ones, using a different codec, that you build from scratch.

Are you sure you are properly monitoring all 18 channels when you hit play…confirming there is no echo on your timeline.
(really sounds to me like you have some audio doubled up and slipped somewhere, and you simply aren’t hearing it on playback, but you do hear it on export)

Glenn