[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?

[Nina Lucia]

I agree with everything Richard Sanchez said above.

While you think Avid is missing features, I think it’s a much better way to work. I hate the way FCP has all those timelines open, too much room for error. Plus, the way Avid works, and Lightworks did when I used it, you put your source in the source monitor and cut in from that. You don’t get a nested section, you get the actual clips that were in the other seq and you know where you’re cutting from. The FCP method makes no sense to me.

It comes down to preference, not Avid being behind the times. Personally I don’t see why Avid it changing things to try to please FCP users because it’s annoying to me. The “smart tool” isn’t so great. I don’t know why locators are now called markers. They’re not markers, they’re locators!

It has to do with what you started on and what you’re used to. To me Avid is so much more streamlined than FCP. I do know someone who likes FCP better who started on Avid but I also know someone for whom the reverse is true. Ultimately you just have to use the one that gets the job done best for you and your needs.

[Nina Lucia]

I export from the Avid as Same as Source then use MPEGStreamclip on the desktop to convert to whatever I need depending on who I’m delivering to.

This way it takes less time to export (I don’t use Sorensen so maybe it doesn’t for that) and I can convert a reel at the desktop level while the other reels export from the Avid, using less time to get them all done.

[Nina Lucia]

I think I just found the magic combo! CMD + SHIFT.

[Nina Lucia]

Well, going straight to DVD is working. Not sure why the img ended up too big???

Anyway… I’m set for now.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for the quick response!

I’m using a QT export that’s sitting on my HDD, so the black isn’t an issue.

By check my assets, you mean after it’s in Compressor? I’m just using a QT, so I’m definitely not dropping anything in more than once.

Here’s what I’m doing.

-Open Compressor and select Create DVD from the default template selection that comes up automatically.
-Take my Avid output QT, 25.21gb, and drop it over into Compressor so it now shows the DVD MPEG-2 info and DVD Dolby Audio info.
-I go to Inspector, choose Hard Drive for Output Device and give it a title.
-Hit Submit.

It always just makes an img file that is able to be burned. Today for some reason it’s making it just too large to burn.

[Nina Lucia]

As far as finding the clips, if you want to find all clips in the project that are at 23.98 you can show the FPS column and it will tell you the frame rate of the clips.

If you only want to see the audio used in the sequence, put the sequences in a bin and “Set Bin Display” to “Show Reference Clips”. Then you’ll see all the clips in those sequences. Display your FPS column and you’ll see the frame rate. You can use copies of the sequences and get rid of the video tracks so there’s less clips showing in there.

As to fixing it, I’m not sure about that. I don’t see an option for changing the frame rate when you transcode on my system which is running 5.5.2.

[Nina Lucia]

So you are using the old media and the old bins but in a new project? Was the old project on a different version of MC? Any reason you aren’t just using the old project as well?

Do you have “Relink only to media from the current project” unchecked?

I’ve have hardly had any issues relinking. I would point to the correct drive, uncheck the above, and see what happens.

Also, are you saying the the clips that come up in Media Tool are linked but then the clips in the original bins are still not linked? Did you try opening an original bin/sequence while the Media Tool bin is open and see if that links them?