[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Shane!

Don’t know After Effects yet so we’ll see what I come up with. Maybe 567 key frames. 🙂

[Nina Lucia]

Also, go into your settings in the project on each system and go to Media Creation. Set all items to put the media on the external drive. You can also check filter out system drive and filter out launch drive (I think that’s what they call it) so that it won’t go to the internal hard drive.

Now all your renders and motion effects you create will be written to the external drive so you won’t have those offline if you switch systems.

And even though Avid should create a new media folder when there are 5,000 items in the current one, it is recommended to keep that number at around 1200. So keep an eye on it, and when the folder inside the MXF named xxx.1 gets to 1200-1500, lock it off by changing the .1 to .2 and then Avid will create the new .1 folder the next time media is written. If you have recently rendered or imported anything make sure the two nonmedia files, the database ones (can’t remember the extensions offhand) are of a newer time than the media files so that they have all the media files indexed or the newest ones might appear offline.

If you do get an OMFI media folder, iirc, the current folder has no .#, so put a .1 at the end and then Avid will create the new folder when you create more media.

[Nina Lucia]

Curious why you are choosing pan and scan in the first option.

[Nina Lucia]

Interesting. I thought the big advantage of FCP that you didn’t have to transcode footage like you do for Avid. I was going to ask someone about that because I’m working on a doc with many different formats and I have to re-render a lot while editing, which is annoying.

Filing away that h264 info for future projects!

[Nina Lucia]

Sweet! Thank you!

[Nina Lucia]

I don’t know if you’ve solved this or not but I had this problem before and was able to get my project open by opening FCP with an empty project and then opening the problematic project from within FCP. I just saved a new project with nothing in it and named it EMPTY. It worked after that.

If you get it to work I would do a “save as” or copy everything into a new project if you can (it’s a real PITA in FCP if it even works).

[Nina Lucia]

I just had this issue with the source not having a video track to cut over and reset panel worked to get it back.

Thanks for the tip!

[Nina Lucia]

I’ve seen that before. I don’t remember what job it was so I can’t give any details as to what kind of footage or project it was or what version of MC. It didn’t seem to present any problems though.

I have a situation now where every time I go into my project the master TC is set to a different rate. It won’t stay at 24. Sometimes it’s at 25 something or other, one time it was at 60. Never seen that before. I’m on MC 5.5.6 I believe.

[Nina Lucia]

Glad to help!

Yes, it worked fine after that.

[Nina Lucia]

I don’t know if you fixed this or not but I just got same message.

I trashed MCState settings and didn’t help.

Then I restarted the Mac, zapped Pram while it restarted (hold cmd+opt+p+r until you hear the chime 2 times, I waited for 3).
Then I wanted to open the project with no bins so I held opt+shift while Avid started. I don’t know if I needed to hold both, but it asked me what audio I wanted to use, I picked Avid DX, then I had to let go of the keyboard for it to let me navigate to the project, selected it, held opt+shift while opening and it worked!

Opened the project with no bins open and I’m good to go.