[Joshua King ortiz]

I had some issues with early versions of MC 2019, but the latest release is pretty solid and has fixed most of the issues. And, for the most part, I’m a big fan of the new interface.

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Thank you for the suggestion, Drew! It looks like a great alternative workaround. Definitely better than the workaround I had to do with the deadline breathing down my neck which was to export and AAF and finish it in Premiere, which Relinking tool is an absolute delight to work with in general and specially when compared to Avid’s. It just works like a Relinking tool should.

When a professional application’s users use words such as “hit or miss” to define such an important aspect of our work, it begs the question of why an industry standard professional tool like Avid is so far behind and gives its users so many headaches in this aspect of our work.

I love many aspects of MC and have come to prefer it over Premiere, but this is something which makes me think twice about using it on a regular basis when working with proxies because the relinking and conforming process opens a world of unnecessary troubles and workarounds that should’ve been fixed a long time ago.

If Avid is listening: you should make the Relink window much more user friendly, reliable, and intuitive and less “hit or miss”. Or just copy Premiere’s.

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Hi Karen,

You might have inadvertently deleted the clips in your project, but deleting the clips in the project does not delete the actual media that they are referencing (linking to) on your drive. So you can always just re-import the media from your drive.

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Wow, that is a big downer that it can’t do something that important and basic that every other NLE has been able to do for years now. I remember FCP 7 was able to do that way back in the day (and if I remember correctly FCP 5 and 6 as well).

I’m trying to give Avid a chance and there are many things I like about it, but also a lot of work arounds and specific tasks that should be more straight forward and are handled better in Premiere. If only we could take the best features out of them and bundle it into one. We can call it Previd ☺

Thank you for the tip, hope it works because otherwise this will be a deal breaker for me. I need to be able to move things to a new folder if the situation arises and a 2019 NLE should be able to allow for that to happen.

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Hi Brent,

It is AMA. It’s happening with some sound effects that I had to move to another folder. I did a test with the ProRes Proxies and same problem, it is impossible to relink if they are moved to another folder.

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Hi Steve,

Yeah, it definitely has to be something wrong with the card. I had the same problem and took out my Blackmagic card and everything worked fine. I’m just monitoring through headphones straight out of the workstation for now until the problem gets resolved.

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Hi Sean!

I’m on the latest 2019 version and just tried it and it works for me.

Are you in the composer window when you press your keyboard shortcut?

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Hey Michael!

I tried to upload one of the spanned files to my Google Drive to share with you but my internet is running really wonky for the last few days for some reason and after uploading for a few hours it gave an unable to upload error.

As far as camera settings, it is a Red Gemini shot in 4096×2160, Redcode 7:1 compression, IPP2 pipeline, REDWideGamutRGB color space, Log3G10 Gamma Curve.

Here are the answers to your questions.

Are you syncing double system audio in Resolve or just transcoding the camera originals? No, just transcoding the originals and then synching in MC.

What resolution is the file? 4096×2160

what is your project type? Do you mean what are the settings for the final deliverables? If so, they are ProRes 422 (QT wrapper) and H264 (mp4 wrapper) 1920×1080, 23.98fps.

Have you set Media Creation settings to be half good, half, 1/4, etc. to decode a little easier? The Import settings in the Media Creation window were set to DNxHD 36 (OP-Atom wrapper) and Linked Source Scaling Quality was set to Full.

Are you working with proxy setting in Project window? Yeah, I tried with and without the proxy setting in the project window.

I have to admit that I prefer using RedCineX Pro to make proxies. It automatically creates an ALE and AAF in additon to all the proxies. Move proxies to MediaFile folder, drag and drop AAF into bin, and optionally merge ALE. Wow, that is great to know, I did not know that. It sure saves some steps. Thank you for the tip!

Again, thank you for all of your help!

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Regarding the BRAW plugin, yeah a user over at the Avid forums who has been in contact with Blackmagic gave me a heads up on the BRAW plug-in update. Will try it out and see if it fixes some of the bugs on that end.

Thanks Michael!

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Hi Michael,

The camera is the Red Gemini. I’m not sure what codec version it is though. How do you find that out?

The lengths vary, some are short takes without spanning and some are long takes with spanning. Both spanned and not spanned clips generate the error.

The first workflow workaround I tried was to create proxy dailies for each card in Resolve and bring them into the Avid with an ALE file. This worked at first and all of the sudden stopped working even when I created specific projects for each of the different frame rates.

Then I tried doing the same but with an AAF and, again, it worked at first and then, from one day to the next, now only the Video MXF file reconnects but not the A1 and A2 files, even though they’re all in the AvidMediaFiles folder and I tried everything from trashing the database files to have it refresh to tweaking every parameter in the terrifyingly dreadful Relink window. I also tried crossing my fingers and praying each time I hit the Relink button to no avail.

So, I ended up using a workflow similar to the one I use with Premiere, which is transcoding to Quicktime ProRes proxies in Resolve and then reconnecting at the end when picture is locked and ready for color. This is pretty straightforward and bypasses the reliance on the MediaFiles folder, which has been working when it wants to. I’m hoping it works because otherwise I’ll have to redo everything in Premiere.

Today, I opened the project and found that the audio on all of the clips all of the sudden doesn’t work. The Audio mixer meters show there’s sound. Everything in the Audio Project settings with the Blackmagic card looks goods. It just decided not to work. So I’m spending the day trying to trouble shoot that instead of working and haven’t found a fix for that yet, so I’ll have to open another thread for that.

All in all, this is my first time using Avid since I learned it in film school and the experience has been full of errors, gotchas, hiccups, and obstacles even when I follow step by step workflow instructions. I was planning on switching from Premiere to Avid because Premiere crashes way too often for my taste, but now I don’t know. But after this experience I’m not sure. I can’t have something work one day and not the next. The inconsistency and unreliability I’m experiencing in this project makes me very uneasy about using it as my NLE of choice, as much as I want it to for other reasons that make me like Avid.

Thank you again for all of your help on this, Michael!

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