[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.

[Nina Lucia]

What is this “other bins” folder you mentioned?

Unless you are on mc7 and it’s completely different, you can move whatever bins you want out of the project and into any project you like. They are accessible at the finder level. Where as in FCP you can’t open the project at the finder level and see what’s inside.

You can have your own Avid project and do whatever you like, the bins are not project specific. Unless you are sharing a project over some sort of media share with someone else, then you see whatever bins they make and they see whatever bins you make and if you delete a bin they won’t see it anymore either. Is that what you’re talking about?

OH!!! I know what you mean about “other bins”. Those are bins you open from outside of the project. You can do that but I don’t use that for anything important, just if I need to peek or if I opened a bin by accident from somewhere else. I would advise against using that as something regular, just stick to working with bins inside your project, then you’ll always know where they are.

Sounds like you just need to get used to sharing a project. It’s great! You’ll love it. But yes, all the bins need to stay in there if anyone accessing the project needs them. I just make a good folder structure so the bins are filed away by category and you can easily find and access them when you need to. And some of the redundancy you mentioned in your first post may be a good thing. There may be a reason for it.

Also, beware of the lock on the bins if you are indeed sharing a project. If the editor is cutting in a reel that’s in a bin you open you should have a red lock light on it. If you do you can’t make changes, well you can make them but it won’t save. If it asks you if you want to save it as another bin don’t do it. Just say no, then option drag the clip you made changes to into a new bin to save your changes. I might be giving you too much other info, if so ignore this for now. When you need it you’ll think oh, that’s what she was talking about. 😉

[Nina Lucia]

Hm… what I’ve always done in the past, albeit on older versions, is “Get Sequence” and it would take a minute then fill in the EDL. So I used that again this time. I don’t even know how to “send to”, never had to use that. But I haven’t had to do this stuff on anything newer than mc4.x.x so I’m behind the times!

What I ended up doing now is opening the AAF I had already exported from within EDL Mgr and that worked quickly. I have never opened a bin from within EDL Mgr, will have to try it, although since I have to make AAFs anyway, it’s easy to just use those to give EDL Mgr the info it needs without repeating the time consuming process.

Thanks for your reply!

[Nina Lucia]

You can make the new project and copy ALL bins into it then work with it the way you would have if you were using the original project. But that seems too easy so I don’t think I’m understanding your dilemma.

Also, are you not going to share the project with the editor? They’ll be on their own project then you’ll pass bins?