Jonathan Ramsey
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Ah ha! You guys are friggin’ brilliant. It just had to be something simple like that. It was, in fact, the ALL FRAMES was set to OFF in VIEW. Must have reset that with the new install and since I never get in there, didn’t think to go that direction.
Thanks, folks!!
Ramsey………………………….
RAMSEY
Treeline Film Company
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Thank you for your advice.
-Ramsey
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Many PC-based editing suites in the past have had significant conflict issues with having any “outside” software installed on edit systems. I am less familiar with the Mac platform these days so I inquired coming mostly from a PC past. You will, however, continue to hear advisable warnings to avoid other installs even on Macs that have to do with virus protection. At any rate, PC edit systems are increasingly differentiated as either treat-me-like-any-other-piece-of-software OR don’t-put-a-dang-thing-else-on-me-as-I’m-not-a-PC, I’m-an-edit-system-running-on-a-PC-platform. Recognizing that difference on your own system can mean a lot when the whole thing crashes or won’t accomplish otherwise simple tasks and the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. But again, I was just wondering if the same was true on the Mac side, which I am gather it is not (thank goodness).
Cheers,
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Excellent. Thank you!
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Well said. I should presume that if it were a simple fix, it would have been done already.
Cheers. – Ramsey
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A friend also suggested making a compiled database by exporting each of the bins’ info as a tab delimited .txt file and then opening it in something like Excel. That method, I found, is preferable as the Media Tool work-arounds which demand that the footage is already captured. I have only logged it all and do not want 80 tapes worth of shots digitized simply for searching purposes. A single bin can also cause throughput limitations and problems with this much metadata. So, just FYI, the tab delimited export feature seems to work well. You just have to be careful that each of the bins, as you export the metadata, are not sifted and that the columns you want to be able to search are visible. Thanks to the guru El Armstrong for this tip! And shame on AVID for being so slow to deal with such a basic functionality issue. Just ’cause you own the market doesn’t mean you should sit on your laurels (if that is the case here).
Cheers,
Ramsey