[Hanqin Lin]

Yes, that did fix the white frame issue, if I use AMA file export to export directly to a OP1a mxf file. But unfortunately that doesn’t help with my situation. The reason behind using QT reference as a middle ground and export using third party compressor is that I don’t need to spend the time waiting for a master export for a 90 minute long clip and then spend another hour or so waiting for it to transcode to H264.

When I do the final mastering I do export the master clip first. But often time my clients demand super quick previews of multiple versions of the film, and yes it’s a 90 something minute long feature film. I often times got put into situations where I have to get a 720p H264 format mp4 file rendered and ready in less than an hour. Albeit AMA file export is fast, there is no way I can make to full renders in that short amount of time, hence I’m looking for methods that are even faster. QT reference acts more or less like a AAF file that I can just send to a compressor and render out the H264 file in one pass. That’s why I sticked to the QT reference and send to adobe encoder method.

It appears that the issue only occurs when I’m doing this kind of “reference render”. Is there any solutions? Or a better way to directly render out preview quality H264 clips out of Avid in lightning fast speed.. -_-

[Hanqin Lin]

Yes! That’s exactly what we have been doing. We name our mxf folders by date, like 20161108, and put everything that was shot that day in it. So that I can easily move the entire folder over to another drive.

And actually we have 4 guys working on it, one being a DIT/On-Set Editor. We receive newly shot materials pretty much daily. And everything was fine until one day the DIT guy messed up and put 600 or so clips from a different project that are totally irrelevant into the dated folder for this project. Thus, manually separating the files will take some effort. Yes I can just copy this folder over and leave those unreferenced files inside, but I don’t want to cluster the other editor’s drives with unnecessary clips (and the extra 20 mins or so of my life wasted on the copying process-_-). So I figured why not just use Avid’s always great media management tools and let Avid pick and copy the needed files. And that’s why everything happened.

I always unplug the drives and only keep one drive mounted to ensure I don’t have duplicated clips confusing Avid, but still, the problem exists.