[Glenn Sakatch]

Sometimes if you hit it 20 times or so it seems to work.:)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I had a chance to run through this yesterday. There does seem to be a bit of a disconnect going back to Avid, but it is a pretty simple fix.

It is possible not choosing “create unique filename” would help with all of this, but that is not possible in many cases. If you are using 2 different sections from the same shot, Resolve will simple overwrite the first instance with any later instances, so (for my money) you usually have to have unique names.

Here is a workflow that should work.

Note, I find this easier to do if all my original Avid media is offline. Lets me know immediately if I’ve missed a clip or not, so I usually move that projects media out of the mxf/whatever folder- up a level so Avid can’t see it.

Render out of Resolve to your ‘ClientName from Resolve” folder
Move this folder into your Avid MediaFiles/mxf folder
Rename this folder 888 (something obvious-numbers only)
Launch Avid
open your bin with your edit- everything is offline if you moved you media like I suggested earlier.
Duplicate your sequence and move it into a new bin called “final from resolve

Create another new bin called media from resolve.
in explorer or finder, open your 888 folder. Avid should have built a database for it upon launch. Drag that data base (MDB file) into your bin labeled Media From Resolve.

That bin is now populated with all your colour corrected media.
Select all those clips

Go to your Final from Resolve bin and select that sequence.
(Note, you can have items in multible bins selected at the same time)
Right click on the sequence and select relink.
in the relink options, (doing this from memory) choose relink to all selected clips in open bins.
I usually turn off match case sensitivity and turn on ignore extension.
I also usually turn off create new sequence at the bottom.

Hit OK, your timeline should now be online with the color corrected material.

If you’ve gone and changed 1 or two shots in resolve and rerendered, and then moved and overwritten clips in your 888 bin, Yes, those clips may be offline.

Open your Media From Resolve bin, select all and press the delete button. Tell avid to delete the master clips, but NOT the associated media. This will basically delete the clips from the bin, but not the 888 folder. Then re drag the database file into the bin, and relink.

Everything should be online again, including your tweaked shots.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Make yourself a new project, at the proper resolution etc.

Once that project is created, just copy the bins (.avb) that you need from the other project. Don’t copy everything…just the bins, and I suppose any folders that may contain those bins.

Open your new project, you should have access to everything bin-wise.

Now you said you were using omfi mediafiles folders instead of mxf folders? (haven’t used those for quite a while, but if your media isn’t online, the usual culprit is the location of that folder. Unlike mxf, all your media goes into 1 big folder with omfi, so first of all, did you create subfolders in it?…you can’t.

Secondly, it has to be at the root of the drive it is in, and

And finally, it has to be spelled correctly…been a while, but I believe it’s

OMFI MediaFiles (someone can jump in and correct me) I think it is all caps on the OMFI (space) Capital M and Capital F, with no space between Media and Files.

If they are still offline, try loading your media tool and see if they show up there, and a relink to drive, and point avid to the drive that folder is in.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Do a video mixdown of your sequence, output a same as source quicktime as an intermediate, then run it through mpeg streamclip to an h264. If you system is any good, you should save your self several hours.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Thanks for all this Marianna. My only remaining question…Is avid going to contact us when it becomes close to the time to re up our support? I upgraded to 8 sometime in the summer, but would hate to find out next August that it ran out 1 week previous.

That’s exactly what happened with my fusion license when 7 came out. my support ran out 2 weeks prior, and I received no notice to re up my subscription. Not a big deal there because they let you pay the re-up price pretty much anytime, but Avid is saying if it expires you have to start over again.

Its pretty easy in this industry to lose track of time and licenses…especially when we are dealing with multiple machines, and differet software.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

call tech support, ask avid licensing to reset your activation.

I think you may have mistakenly deleted the setting that contains your activation information from the computer, so I wants to rebuild it…but can’t because of course, you didn’t really deactivate it.

look down about 6 or 7 posts, I think you’ll see another post about a fellow trying to get his activation reset. Its not that difficult to do.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

When you render mxfs out of Resolve, they should be given the same name each time you render them. If you are doing individual clips, which i assume you are, you should select “give each file a unique name” and render. Now disclosure here…i do this from MC to Resolve to Avid DS, i don’t usually go back to MC.

In my situation, if a change happens after i go to DS, i go back to resolve, open that timeline, and rerender the shot to a new folder “changes oct 21′ inside that folder is a single mxf file. I then copy it to the folder that contains all the other mxf files that DS is using…the same ones that Resolve spit out the first time, and it asks me if i want to overwrite the file. (this is my check point that i’ve created a file with the correct name) I over right, open DS and the new footage is there.

i would think the same thing would happen in MC, but, as Joesph said, you would more than likely need to update your database file.

1 question, have you renamed your Avid Media files folder? Say from “1” to “footage from resolve”? If so, your new media won’t be recognized until you change the folder back to a number only, and rebuild the database.

As i said, i don’t usually go back to MC like this, but i will try a test and see what happens.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

just call Avid…it takes 5 mins and you are done.
I’ve had to call them a few times to get a deactivation done…not a big deal.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Honestly, I don’t do a lot of tracking in Avid. I offline in Avid and online in DS, Resolve and Fusion usually. Most of my tracking is done in Mocha or DS.

From a workflow standpoint, if you are replacing a tv screen or something like that, than yes you should use 4 point tracking. Unless you can guarantee that the object you are tracking has absolutely no skew or rotation or ever changes perspective in the slightest amount, you need those 4 corners locked.

If you are tracking a logo on a shirt to blur it out, you can usually get away with a single point tracker.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Actually I just discovered you can add a stabilize to a filler area above your shot. just razor up the area you need to stabilize.
In theory, you could continue to mount the effects layer upon layer without doing a mixdown. I avoid mixdowns out of habit as i come from an online/offline/… constant client revisions world.

Glenn