[John Hill]

I tried quitting Avid and putting the mxf file into the avid media files folder but Avid didn’t like that. So I’m guessing that you leave the mxf in a folder and then ama link to it…without ever putting it into the avid media files folder…unless you transcode it later…
Thanks for your help!

[John Hill]

Thanks, John and Michael!
Just trying to figure out the simplest round trip workflow from avid to after effects. I understand how to bring an aaf into after effects but am confused as to how to export a mxf file. Where do I export the mxf to? The desktop and then quit avid and put it into my project’s media files folder? And then start Avid again and look for it with Media tool? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of instruction on how to do it.

[John Hill]

I made the letterbox I added to the top track green to show that for some reason the letterbox effect has also squeezed the image and added the black border.

[John Hill]

Thanks, Michael…I should have said that I tried that…not sure why it’s not working though…even though it’s on a track above it is still moving as per stabilizer instructions…strange…

[John Hill]

Thanks James,

Avid could make it clearer though as to what drive the audio is on. I wrongly assumed the audio was on the same drive as the masterclip (video). Ended up deleting my audio by mistake. I guess you must click Reveal File to make sure the Audio portion of your masterclip is on the same drive.

I’ve learned my lesson. Painfully.

[John Hill]

Thanks for your help, Richard. I see now that the is the suggested remedy. Alas, it still reverts to the settings tab. I clicked on the bin tab, quit Avid, opened it, and it was back to settings.
I’m upgrading soon so I’ll just let it ride for now I guess.

Thanks,

John

[John Hill]

Hi Glenn,

Thank you for your helpful response. I had done exactly what you thought. I had identical media on both drives so that is why the master clips kept “popping back up.”
Am I correct in thinking that In the normal course of consolidating media to another drive that problem should not occur? (Otherwise you’d have to always be disconnecting a drive). So I think I must have put the same media on a different drive at an earlier time.

Thanks again!

John

[John Hill]

Thanks, Pat!

[John Hill]

I’m looking forward to upgrading and getting FrameFlex, it would be great to know that what I’m seeing is what I’ll be getting!

Thanks for your response.

John

[John Hill]

Thanks, Jeff, for your quick response and help. I feel like a doofus but I should be in an HD project. I thought I could still be in an NTSC project and Pan and Zoom would not degrade my image but apparently it does. Looks perfect in 1080p.

Thanks again.