[Keaton Douglas]

William,

You’re right that’s exactly what was happening. Thanks!

– Keaton

[Keaton Douglas]

Paddy,

I use this exact method for relinking. Are you familiar with using this method in MC7?

In Media Composer 6.5 when I would do this the newly created sequence would display the relinked media as yellow. At a glance I could see that everything relinked properly. In Media Composer 7, which I just installed, the newly created sequence doesn’t mark any items in yellow.

A newly created sequence from a relink that fails and displays the message saying No footage was relinked to, now looks exactly the same as a newly created sequence where all footage relinked properly.

How can I tell in MC7 that the the relink was successful?

[Keaton Douglas]

Michael,

Thanks for your help.

Yes we’re trying to sync audio and video, but we’d like to end up with a Sync Map. I’m able to sync audio to video as subclips using the method you described (AutoSync).

But for the convenience of being able to see all of our footage across a timeline my boss has asked that I produce a Sync Map for all of our shoots. We want our Sync Map to be a sequence that looks very similar to what’s produced by AutoSequence.

It’s starting to look like the only way I could do this is by actually using the AutoSequence feature which means for every individual master clip I need to copy the timecode in Aux TC1 (that was placed in the Aux TC1 column from me running “Special > Read Audio Timecode”), then paste it to the Start timecode column, and click OK on the two error messages that tell me not to do this.

I’m fairly new to Avid, is this common practice? How would someone use Audio Timecode legitimately? Do people just not bother trying to create the sync map and work purely with the subclips created by AutoSync, opening each one individually in the source monitor to preview all of the footage? Then how would I easily access audio that has no associated video? Perhaps in the middle of an interview the camera cut off for 3 seconds while the speaker was in the middle of an important sound byte. My subclips won’t have this content. I’ll need to go back to the raw audio clip and search out the moment. But if I had the sync map, all of the content would be there, whether video and audio were running simultaneously or not.

– K

[Keaton Douglas]

Quick follow-up question: Is there any reason I can’t just replace the Start timecode with my Audio TC (that’s sitting currently in Aux TC1) for all of my master video clips. Right now Start timecode is 00:00:00:00 for every clip.