Michael Hancock
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If that “Avid MediaFiles_” folder is at the root of the drive, remove the underscore at the end of it.
If it’s not at the root of the drive, put it there then remove the underscore at the end of it. It should scan then.
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Michael Hancock
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Oliver Peters started a great “Feature Request” thread back in September that generated a nice long list and discussion.
FCPX has had an update since then, and pretty much none of those feature requests made it into the new version – so I’d say they all still apply. 🙂
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/84031
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I’m unclear what you already have. You have the Avid media and Avid project and you’re wanting to export an AAF to link back to the Alexa footage? Or you already have the AAF and native Alexa media?
If you already have an AAF, set your preferences in Resolve to use the reel name embedded in the source clip, import the native Alexa media into Resolve first, then import the AAF and tell it to link to the source original files (uncheck the “automatically import media” box when you import the AAF into Resolve). It should relink to the Alexa footage.
If you don’t have an AAF already and need to generate one to go into resolve, just export one from Avid. You shouldn’t need to relink it to the native media in Avid first – that can be done in Resolve.
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[Jeff Kirkland] ” it can take a couple of seconds for playback to ramp up and smooth out, which I put down to a slowish hard drive.”
My hard drive is a Promise2 R6 with read and write speeds over 500MB both ways and I see this issue with playback needing to ramp up too. But to me it’s unacceptable. When I hit play, it needs to play. It’s an NLE, after all, and when clients are in the room it gets a little old having to start playback several times before it plays back smoothly, instantly.
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Michael Hancock
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Same here. I see it on timelines without effects. Just plain old ProRes media.
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Michael Hancock
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You might be able to export an ALE, open it in Excel, merge the columns there, save it as a text file (tab delimited, I think), then reimport the ALE and merge it with the clips in your bins. It would be worth testing.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Only that didn’t spare him the massive amount of manual shifting around of bins and what not, nor the need for pre-rendering/transcoding the entire footage first, bin by bin, because the Avid (MP with Nitris, NextStor RAID and what not else) couldn’t play the 2K Cinefrom material anywhere near realtime either… as opposed to me with FCP (though I ultimately did do most in Proxy, after it had finished automatically transcoding over night).”
Well to be fair, he was using software from 2011 that wasn’t written to handle material like that. If he was running a newer version of Avid he would have had better performance and could have use the background transcoding and probably been working from day one.
If he had to go bin by bin to transcode then it’s a workflow issue. He very easily could have dropped everything into one bin and set it to transcode overnight (like FCPX generating proxy files). Was this editor used to working with assistants that handled this type of stuff and didn’t have them on this job? 10 years of editing doesn’t mean he’s well versed on the technical stuff, especially if he’s more of a story editor.
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[Robin S. Kurz] ” Parts were edited on an Avid (v6 I believe) and I was doing the rest on FCP X. The Avid guy was apparently pretty much screwed, since all he could use was TC for syncing. “
The Avid guy didn’t know what he was going then. He could have manually synced, or figured out the offset and set up an auxiliary timecode column with the offset and used that to sync. He was screwed because he didn’t know what he was doing – not because of the software.
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Michael Hancock
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I’m still on 10.2.2 and have always seen playback issues with the Blackmagic Ultrastudio Express (I didn’t start using FCPX until July of last year so can’t compare performance with earlier versions). My boss uses an AJA card and has seen similar issues.
The issue is that I press play it might play back great, or it might stutter and buffer for a couple of seconds before the video playback on my monitor catches up with the timeline. It’s intermittent and inconsistent. When I see it start to stutter I just stop playback, back it up to where I originally hit play and it seems to do better the 2nd or 3rd time.
My output settings always match my timeline, which is 1080p ProRes 23.976 for 99% of my work. I’m running Blackmagic drivers 10.4.3. I tried updating to the latest version (10.5.4) but would crash constantly. Rolled my drivers back and it’s much more stable in regards to hard crashing, but the intermittent playback instability is still there. If I turn off the A/V Output FCPX is smooth as butter and has no playback issues. Something is amiss, and I’m bummed to hear it’s even worse with 10.2.3.
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Michael Hancock
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I find myself wishing for a Force Relink when I’m updating stock footage and stock music. I download the comp files, which are watermarked, then after the edit is locked and the music/footage is purchased I need to update my sequence with the unwatermarked version.
In FCPX, if there’s even a 1 frame difference, it won’t relink, and sometimes it just flat out refuses to link even if the files are identical in length/name. At that point there’s no way to force it to relink, which means I spend a lot of time recutting my music/video. Avid’s batch import worked the same way – if there is any difference in file length, it refuses to batch import, which is a real nuisance.
Premiere, on the other hand, has a Replace Footage option where you can force it to relink to any other file, and if the new file is longer it doesn’t matter. If it’s shorter it doesn’t matter. It will still relink, and gives you a visual indication in the timeline that media that used to be there no longer is (hashmarks on the clip – it’s kind of clever).
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Michael Hancock
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