[Guy Fixsen]

In my case I’m not talking about monophonic import. The issue is with poly BWAVs imported into MC. They then get turned into mono MXFs which fail to carry metadata over to Protools.

[Guy Fixsen]

So my current solution to the above is to get all the audio in MXF form from the editor. However, the Channel Names do not come through correctly. Where the channel names were originally “Radio…”, “Boom…” etc. they are now “(A0)”,”(A1)” etc. I should add that the MXFs I have are all single channel files. MC took the original polys and made one mono file for each channel. So actually maybe it makes sense that there are no ‘Channel Names’ as such. But it seems there should be a way for this metadata to be passed on to PT from MC. Is it possible for MC to create multichannel MXFs for example, or rename the single channel MXFs using the Channel Names?

[Guy Fixsen]

Thanks Michael. Rather frustratingly, I did actually pass the files through Wave Agent as I needed to turn mono wavs into polys. Had I known I could just add TC at that point…! Living and learning…

[Guy Fixsen]

Thanks very much for your input John, I will send this to the editor and see what happens. I think what it really comes down to is that the shoot was done without timecode. I didn’t realise this would impact linking files so that’s interesting to learn. I can’t really understand why audio files aren’t linked in the same way as video files in MC. Seems wasteful and inelegant to make new versions but hey I guess Avid have done it that way for some reason…

[Guy Fixsen]

Thanks very much for your input Michael. I think what it really comes down to is that the shoot was done without timecode. I didn’t realise this would impact linking files so that’s interesting to learn. I can’t really understand why audio files aren’t linked in the same way as video files in MC. Seems wasteful and inelegant to make new versions but hey I guess Avid have done it that way for some reason…

[Guy Fixsen]

Thanks for the benefit of your experience Shane – interesting to know. I guess an EDL could only help if the audio has timecode (?), which in my case it doesn’t.

I would like to know if the issue is the changing of the clip names.

[Guy Fixsen]

I probably could work with the MXF files but it seems wrong that I can’t just link to the original rushes. It seems crazy for the editor to have to send all the audio back to me when I have it already. Surely going from one Avid product to another it should be possible to just reference the same audio?

Plus, the filenaming in the MXF is changed compared to my rushes – it’s now the names that the editor assigned when he made subclips – so it makes it harder to find alternate takes etc.

[Guy Fixsen]

Thanks for that Michael! I’ve done as you said.

[Guy Fixsen]

Hi Michael

Thanks for your perspective. I mistyped – I meant ‘uncompressed’ of course 🙂

Can you suggest what is a sensible maximum total bitrate for a DVDR?

Thanks

Guy

[Guy Fixsen]

I was definitely planning to use the compressed aif/ wav! Why would you suggest reducing the quality to an ac3? Are there players out there that don’t play aif?