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Oh, and I would definitely not decompose, as you then get clips with different lengths than the originals. Why would you recommend a decompose?

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I thought v5 was able to relink those without the need to have used QTchange on the DSLR-files, Bouke… Am I mistaken?

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IIRC, you have to hide the MXF media from the system in order for MC to be able to relink to the AMA files.

Hiding those MXF Mediafiles is as simple as renaming your Avid MediaFiles folders on your media drives to something like “Avid MediaFiles Project X”.

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You need to be more specific, as “a Nitris system” can be eiter a DS Nitris, a Symphony Nitris (classic), a Symphony Nitris DX or a Media Composer Nitris DX.

I know, bad nomenclature.

My best guess is that these were all broken down to source tape names and timecode, and these would all point to 00.00.00.00. This has all improved in MC5 as it lets you assign tape/filenames and allows TC for filebased imports.

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You are trying to take an old OMF file and move it five software revisions into the future. That is not a healthy method, IMHO.
I would open the OMF on the Meridien system, archive the project and the media (OMFI MediaFiles folders), and take those to your MC5 system. More likely to work.

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Just toggle to Full Screen mode. Check under Toolsets.

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My bet is you won’t be able to properly install it.

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Yes, NTFS disks are read-only under Mac OSX, and in my experience, some disks won’t be read at all.

Which is why I recommend a solution like Paragon’s since that will let you read AND write ALL NTFS disks.

If it were up to me, I’d have an international worldwide rule that this type of utility be a default asset in all OSes. Until that time, I purchase a license for Paragon and MacDrive for each of my machines.

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I would never install MC under an emulator like Parallels.

But your MBP has a BootCamp assistant that will let you create a Windows partition on your Mac, and help you install Windows on it. You’ll need to buy an MS Windows installer, one of the versions that Avid supports.

There are some limitations to using certain peripherals within the Win OS on an MBP, but I did succesfully install MetaFuze and Media Composer on it.

Not that I would recommend it for long-term use.

I don’t understand why you would have problems with NTFS formatted drives. I use Macs and PC’s all the time, and I deal with both HFS+ and NTFS drives all the time. On my PC’s I have installed MediaFour’s MacDrive, and on my Macs I have installed Paragon’s NTFS-for-Mac. On both ends this means unlimited reading from and writing to both HFS+ and NTFS drives without the slightest problem.

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ALT-C only works on default Keyboard layouts (where the C-key has “copy tp clipboard” mapped to it). The Win shortcut is ALT-CTRL-C, the Mac shortcut is ALT-CMD-C, regardless of your Keyboard mapping.