[Jon Felix]

but still … AME is not using the previews.

Is this a broken feature?

jon

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[Jon Felix]

Thanks Angelo .. a mine of information and suggestions as usual.

j

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[Jon Felix]

Sorry no .. I am doing web only .. using the IMAC screen ..

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[Jon Felix]

Got it … thanks Pepijn.

jon

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[Jon Felix]

Hello August,

Saw your post and I am getting exactly the same thing – also from 7d original footage. Exactly the same workflow … also using Looks. Wondering if you ever found an answer ….

(Thanks for all your help on the other matters BTW – sorry I didn’t update: it was boring combination of things)

Jon

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Once again I appreciate your time August. I should buy you a pint sometime (that’s how us Brits show our appreciation: in beer): I think we are in the same town …

Anyway I will get back to you regarding your further suggestions .. you might be on to something .. meanwhile I am approaching the problem sideways, so to speak, by starting a new project (which I have to anyway). I wanted to use the same fast TB drive and was wondering about the Avid MediaFiles folder which is sitting on the root. Does the new project also have to have a similar folder, also on the root? If so – should I temporarily rename the other one? This all seems a bit clumsy – normally I would have a master folder for each project.

Thanks mate,
jon

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[Jon Felix]

Hi August,

Thankyou so much for taking the time to help me through this. I really appreciate it….
To answer your questions:

I am using AVID MC6. User settings were mine from AVID MC5.5.

I would never normally put stuff on the internal drive either … just that I will do anything to get rid of the stuttering playback (other post) … assuming that I can get the bloody media back on-line. (I was attempting to move the project to my Thunderbolt raided drive).

I did delete the Database files as you suggested. It did rescan.

I removed the project folder from the internal hard drive, tried to start from the project folder on the Thunderbolt drive, but once again the project would not open saying DISK_DIR_NOT_FOUND, so I put it back again (but with all the other folders on the Thunderbolt drive).

This time some of the sequence was on-line and some not. The media tool revealed a lot of on-line media – but no listing for the shots that were off-line. I tried ‘re-linking’ the sequence and the individual shots, and bins but nothing happened.

I also re-rendered everything …..

In FCP, you just highlighted a clip in the timeline (or bin) and right clicked to get an option saying ‘reconnect’. Then you could point at the file and it would be instantly back on-line. Is there really no way of doing this with AVID? This would be really be a deal breaker for us as we are constantly cloning drives and moving things around and consequently having to reconnect projects to different source drives.

Thanks again for your time August.

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[Jon Felix]

Hi August. To answer your question: I do not know (wasn’t my project originally), since everything is off-line (see my other posted problem).

And everything is off-line because I tried to move the project to a faster (Thunderbolt) drive to fix the stuttering playback – assuming that is was the FW drive.

I have lost two days now … won’t be using AVID again in a hurry … back to Premiere and even the beautiful simplicity of old FCP7.

j

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[Jon Felix]

Thanks for taking the time to reply August … tried what you suggested but it made no difference (and I still got the DISK_NOT_FOUND error). Then I found this on an AVID site:

“This is a BUG ! If the project folder is not sitting on your system drive (C: in PC speak I guess – though I am on Mac), then you get that error DISK_NOT_FOUND etc.”

So I moved the project folder to the system drive (in users/Shared/AvidMediaComposer/Shared Avid Projects) which made the error go away but everything was still offline. Do I now have to move all the other folders to the root of the system drive? Guess I’ll try that if I have enough room – but sorry guys, I am thinking now that AVID is c*#p! compared to Premiere Pro, or even FCP7. An expensive mistake.

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[Jon Felix]

Hello again Shane,

They are … all exactly as you specify … still wont link. So I tried quitting and restarting the project (from the new location) and now I get DISK_DIR_NOT_FOUND ..and the project doesn’t load….. arrrgh!

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