[Pat Horridge]

You will find something wrong. Don’t forget some characters can’t be displayed but are present.
The subscap effect requirements are simple but also inflexible. I’ve had many occasions when the imported titles aren’t complete and its always a tiny error in the source file.

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[Pat Horridge]

You will probably find an error in the source file around the 96 caption position. The subcap effect is picky and needs everything to be correct.
I’d normally do the subcaps in 3 or more chunks to make it easier to track issues.

Look at the file in a text editor and you should be able to spot an extra carriage return or something else unexpected.

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[Pat Horridge]

Yes via the subcaps effect.

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[Pat Horridge]

You can bring in and work with the sources at their original fps. But if you alter the finishing fps you will see different artefacts in different shots. I’d finish in one framerate and then convert to different rates as needed using alchemist or similar.

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[Pat Horridge]

Personally I’d have converted the drop frame to none drop frame and made a new master file of it. Then done all the post in non drop frame.
Drop frame only really has any use in the final playout.

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[Pat Horridge]

Ok don’t copy the project over. Create a new project on your V8.4 system with the same name as the old Project.
In the old project copy the bins across. On Mac systems they may not have extensions to identify them. If so there will be two files in the project folder with the same name as the Project (the actual Project file and the settings file) Ignore those and copy the rest to the PC Project folder your just created.
Add a .avb (Avid Bin) extension to those copied files if no extension exists.
Now open the project and you should see the bins and be able to open them.

The Media is a separate issue to resolve. Was it MXF media or OMFI media?

Do you already have an Avid MediaFiles folder on your 8.4 system with an MXF folder in it and probably a 1 folder?

If so and you have the same folder structure on the Mac system you need to copy the numbered folders on the Mac system to the PC system. You can change the folder number to help avoid conflicts with folders you may already have in the PC MXF folder. So add 100 to each folder you copy across.
So 1 become 101 2 become 102 3 becomes 103 etc.

When all copied do a search on that PC MXF folder for msmFMID.pmr & msmMMOB.mdb delete all instances of them.

Now Launch Media Composer and wait while it rebuilds those databases.

Open media tool and it should show the media from that drive and project.

Check Sequences for offline media (timeline setting)

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[Pat Horridge]

RAW is saving the sensor data as captured which helps eliminate incorrect camera settings on location.
LOG is a way of adjusting the way the limited bit depth of a recording format. LOG trades one area of exposure detail for another.
HDR is a step beyond that.

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[Pat Horridge]

Did you have HDR active when you shot the footage? If not tgen you haven’t captured the extended information so HDR is no use to you.
Even if you capture HDR images its really only useful if you intend to deliver and display HDR.
HDR only works if its end to end.
There is lots of info on the 2 dominent HDR specs currently being pushed. Better to get an overall understanding first.
But for your dark foreground content I’d look at a gamma lift or use tge curves on tge luma channel to lift the intetest area. Maybe next time a bounce reflector would save the day…

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[Pat Horridge]

Source file and source path are both default Avid columns. Just choose them in the bin display.

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[Pat Horridge]

Each clip should have source name as an option.

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