[Nina Lucia]

The way Shane described is a nice clean way to do it providing the editors take the time/remember to create the new folders.

Another way to do it is you can have them make an AAF using “Copy All Media” and point it to a ‘desktop’ folder. The folder will then have an AAF of the sequence or clips and an Avid Media Files folder with the media in it.

The easiest way to do AAFs would be to have them export the clips from a bin. They should just keep track of what they’ve already sent you and only send you what’s new since then. They can keep track numerous ways, having the ‘creation date’ column in the bin should work. The nice thing about doing it as clips is when you get the folder it will have an AAF of each clip so you’ll see exactly what you got.

If you go the sequence route, if they send the new sequence to you, you link and see if anything is offline, then send them back a sequence of just offline clips in it and they can export an AAF of that with media.

As to if you don’t get a bin with the master clips: There’s a couple easy ways to get the clips in the bin.
1 – Change the settings of the bin with the sequence in it to ‘Show Reference Clips’. The bin will now populate with all the clips that are in the sequence. Copy the ones you need into another bin and change the bin view back to not show the ref clips.
(1a – I think you can import the AAFs if you get the individual clips. I don’t usually have a reason to do this so I’m not certain.)
2 – You can drag the database file from the media folder into a bin and it will populate with all the clips that are in that media folder. I can’t remember if that file is made when you do an AAF copy media export. If it is you can just drag it into a bin when you get the media. If it isn’t, you’d have to copy your media over to your system, (re)build the database, then drag in the database file. (this method is something I usually use when I need to find out what the media is in a folder. Method #1 is easier for what you need to do.)

[Nina Lucia]

Ah, okay, thanks.

I’m doing a V1 only EDL. I can make it in three parts. Splitting in half is still too big apparently.

I was able to make an AAF of V1 and V2 combined – there are three split screens – so if it goes to Resolve I think I’m set, and if whoever conforms it needs an EDL they’ll have to get it in three parts, or maybe I can edit them together after I make them. Actually, I guess that won’t work since the event numbers will repeat. Eh, they can get three if they need an EDL.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks!

So if my project gets conformed on Resolve I can make an AAF with no media to be used for that? Just use “Link to (Don’t Export) Media?

[Nina Lucia]

I don’t know that error on that version of MC but as a work around, have you tried creating an audio mixdown and then exporting with that?

[Nina Lucia]

Are you just doing the color in Resolve or also the online conform?

Asking to find out if it’s an AAF that you get because that’s what Resolve needs rather than an EDL for a conform or if Resolve can even do the conform or not.

[Nina Lucia]

I believe so. I don’t think I went up to anything higher at that time and I definitely shared bins with MC 6.5.

You can download 5.5.5 now and that will work. I just edited a film using 5.5.5 that was started on MC 8. I created a new project and copied in the bins and it worked fine.

[Nina Lucia]

I’ve had a project in the past that would crash a lot. What I did was open FCP and save the empty project, I just named it EMPTY. Then I would open that up and open the project I wanted to work on from within FCP rather than double clicking on the project to start FCP.

For whatever reason this alleviated my problem. However, now that I think about it it may have been crashing right after opening.

Your mixed frame rate could be an issue. Have you tried converting that clip and bringing it in at the same frame rate as your other clips?

[Nina Lucia]

I’ve worked with projects over 200mb a lot in the past. I don’t think that’s a rule.

[Nina Lucia]

Just looked at this in the Play Store and I’m wondering why this needs the permissions it lists since it seems that it is basically a calculator?

Full network access
View network connections

reading and modifying/deleting contents of SD card

[Nina Lucia]

Hm… can’t find the “edit post” button now.

Wanted to add that this is not a complicated film so there doesn’t seem to be anything like Flex Frame used or anything much other than some standard resizing. I don’t expect anything complex to arise for this in the future.

And yes, it’s THAT old of a version but it is fully paid for and I have the Boris FX suite and a lot of other stuff that came with it and it still works! So I’m fine with it for small projects I cut at home. 🙂