[Luke Arndt]

That idea sounds like it could work. One question: What exactly do you mean by “Drag that database into your bin with all the clips that you are transcoding”?

I don’t quite understand that. Does that mean I would drag the 2 folder from Windows Explorer into Media Composer?

Thanks for the reply!

[Luke Arndt]

Did you ever find a better solution to this? Media Composer seems to randomly fail when transcoding, and it would be great to be able to “resume” it or automatically skip clips that have already been transcoded.

[Luke Arndt]

Good thinking, but unless I’m missing something, Media Composer 6.0.5 doesn’t give me the option to relink by auxiliary timecode. This is what I see in my relink dialog:

The only other option in the “Relink by” drop-down menu is “Key Number [KN Start] – video only.”

[Luke Arndt]

Is there any “risk” to wiping out the timecode of the original clips inside of Media Composer? This way, I can do it in bulk and set ALL of the clips to 00:00:00:00 to ensure that they match.

In a small amount of testing in relinking clips from a sequence, I didn’t notice anything getting messed up by zeroing out the timecode of the original clips. I just don’t want to be kicking myself down the road if this is a bad idea.

[Luke Arndt]

I apologize for the multiple posts, but something you said interested me.

“I have a few questions as to how you did the original workflow, as we got slightly different results. I was able to access your Resolve created files just fine by putting them in their own numbered folder and importing the msmMMOB.mdb created from the index when MC launches.”

What exactly do you mean when you talk about importing the msmMMOB.mdb file? Is there anything I need to be doing with that?

My practice has been simply to add the MXF files to the appropriate folder (C:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1\), and then open up the Media Tool. That shows all of my MXF files created by Squeeze, just not those created by Resolve.

[Luke Arndt]

Another thing I noticed is if I set the Media Composer MXF Start timecode to 00:00:00:00, which is what is shown for Squeeze MXF files, I can also relink.

That makes me wonder… since I can in bulk “zero out” the timecode in order to make these files match, is there any reason not to do that? Forgive the naivety, but are there many reasons why I would regret overwriting the original timecode? Or would I most likely get away with it, as long as I don’t plan to do a handful of specific things that would require it?

[Luke Arndt]

I appreciate your time and effort, Michael!

I’ve done some additional testing myself, and I have finally gotten relinking to work, although it still requires quite a bit of effort. But here’s what worked for me:

In Sorenson Squeeze’s Output options (Edit -> Preferences -> Output tab), I changed the output filename format to SourceFileName only, and not SourceFileName [underscore] PresetName. That way, inside of Media Composer the MXF file shows up as the original file name (minus the extension) under “Tape.”

The second thing I had to do to make the relinking work was to edit the Start timecode of the MXF file created by Squeeze. So under the “Start” column in Media Composer, I pasted the value that was shown from the original Media Composer-created file.

Once I did these two things, I could finally relink to this new file that was created by Squeeze.

So this works, which is an accomplishment for me, but obviously I don’t want to have to manually edit the timecode of each created MXF file. Any thoughts on what, if anything, can be done about this?

P.S. My version of Media Composer still won’t recognize the files created by Resolve. Maybe it’s just something that was added/fixed in the newer versions of MC, because when I put those Resolve MXF files in my Avid MediaFiles folder, they just get ignored, whereas Squeeze MXF files show up.

[Luke Arndt]

Michael, I sent you a zip via WeTransfer. In it, there is the original .mts file, then MXF files created by Media Composer, Squeeze, and Resolve.

Interestingly, Media Composer will not “recognize” the MXF files created by Resolve. I copy them to the C:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1\ folder, and they never show up under the Media Tool, whereas the MXF files created by Squeeze do show up.

[Luke Arndt]

Thanks for the offer, Michael. I’ll try to upload some sample clips.

Glenn — I had heard people mention Resolve being a possible way to transcode to Avid MXF. The problem is… I can’t really figure out how to use Resolve to do this! Are you by chance familiar with the process?

[Luke Arndt]

Good thinking, but unfortunately there’s not.

For the file I transcode in Media Composer, Source File is “20140228151609.mts” (the original file name) and Source Path is “C:\mypath\.” The Tape field is blank.

All three fields (Source File, Source Path, and Tape) are blank when I “manually” import an MXF file that was created with Sorenson Squeeze.