[Ed Cilley]

I wouldn’t try to edit this off an SD card via USB. Transfer to a faster drive. I have found that when jumping around in long clips it is not a fast as an imported clip, but it should not be “intolerably slow.”

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[Ed Cilley]

What happens when you match frame to the “black” clip?

Did you duplicate your sequence before the consolidate?

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

[Matt Greif] “columns for the Clip Name, Tape Name and the AMA file names”

Matt, is this captured footage? You mention AMA file names and these are handled differently. If you are doing AMA, the Clip Name is the file name. In Choose Columns… select “Source File” and if you prefer, “Source Path”.

If you captured the footage, you probably know that Avid creates files based on the tape name and then various numbers and letters which seem to have no real reference. I don’t know of a way to show these names in the bin. However, you can view them in the timeline (Timeline hamburger, Clip Text>Media File Names).

With an open Bin selected, go to File>Export and choose Tab Delimited. That will get you the file you are looking for based on the columns in that bin.

Hope that helps.

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

[Richard Sanchez] ” What is the advantage of media mover over consolidate”

Sure Richard,

Two different tasks. I use consolidate when I am pulling media from various workspaces in a networked environment. That way all media lives on one drive (workspace) and if the project is opened in another room, only the assigned workspace needs to be mounted.

Then I use Media Mover for backing up media or moving to an external HDD for off-site editing. It can search multiple workspaces or drives and moves all selected media into a folder labeled with the Project name. Then we can backup to LTO or desired archive solution. Neat and tidy.

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

You may need to copy everything first, so you can open the project on the Mac. Yes, you will have lots of extra footage, but this may be what you have to do.

1- Make sure your media lives on the Mac drive in the same folder structure as the NTFS drive. “Avid MediaFiles” should be at the root level.
2- Copy the project off the NTFS drive and store it on your internal drive (or Mac Formatted drive).
3- Open the project.
4- Consolidate as desired.

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

You can also Decompose a sequence. This will create new media (maybe something you want to do, maybe not) and reduce the length of clips to the duration used.

Richards suggestion is probably what you are looking for so you can organize clips.

If you are moving to another system (or backing up media) and only want the media associated with one project, Media Mover will help move only the media you want.
https://www.randomvideo.com/products/mediamover_avid.html

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Sorry, one more thought as I sit here and edit…

Drag or Option-drag (Alt-drag) the effect icon into a bin. Then place it in the order you want, and delete the original effect. Thus changing the order.

If you haven’t used this method of copying effects, it’s worth learning about. It is really helpful with text and can even be used to copy individual parameters of effects (i.e., Scaling or Position).

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

And that’s the gotcha…

[enrico bartolacci] “only if the effect have same number of originating tracks”

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[Ed Cilley]

David,

Hopefully Andrew’s tip helped. If not here is a tutorial that explains the basics. There are more available on that site.

https://community.avid.com/forums/p/70172/392368.aspx#392368

Ed

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

[David Powell] “Also in FCP I could lower the volume of a track by 1 or 3 db with a keystroke. Extremely helpful! Please tell me that exists.”

Wish I could. That is a feature in FCP that is really nice and speeds things up. Sorry.

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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield