[Pat Horridge]

Make sure they do record guide audio on the cameras. However poor the quality is.

Make sure they use a capper board correctly marked up with scene take etc and make sure that clapper info is narrated at the start of each take for the audio file.

I tend to go through the video clips and add the scene and take number to each clips column metadata.

I then do the same with the audio clips (listen to the narrated info and add that to the clip metadata

You can then match video and audio clips and if they have guide audio on the video clips sync them using the audio.

If not you have to mark the In on both video and audio and sync via that (unless really lucky and they use timecode that matches)

Be aware that if they mess this up you will have a mountain to climb in Post unpicking it.

[Pat Horridge]

Export same as source from Avid. Check the quality of that. Shoukd be good.

Then encode from that.

Mpeg 2 for DVD at 85mins is pushing it (you want VBR)

For the bluray you can do AVC ata good bitrate and it shoukd look good.

[Pat Horridge]

Forget Media tool you can’t move files with it just delete them.

Avids answer to moving files is to use consolidate but that’s pretty cr*p as a solution in your case.

I’d open the Avid media files folder on each drive. Then open the MXF folder you shoukd have a 1 folder and possibly some other numbered folders. Possi”bly even a bg_1 folder.

With Avid not running rename those folders by using a prefix number to present the project.

So maybe 100 is project A so you now have 1001 for the folder 1

And 1011 for bg_1 1002 for folder 2 if you have one.

For project B rename as 2001 2002 etc.

You can now create the Avid mediafiles folder and in it your MXF folder and then move those newly numbered folders to their new homes.

Remember that the next time you create media Avid will remake a new 1 folder and put the media in there. Any ba k ground renders end up in a new bg_1 folder.

Of you want to retain separation of media between projects when you finish in project A and exit Avid rename those new 1 folders following you chosen numbering scheme. So maybe 1003 or 1004 or even 10099 at some stage for project A.

[Pat Horridge]

Select a the clips in the source bin (ctrl A)

Then press G to clear In and Out points.

[Pat Horridge]

Eizo colour edge via an IO box.

[Pat Horridge]

Divide it up and test each part.

Try exporting just one track at a time.

Basically you need to track down any errors in the sequence.

[Pat Horridge]

Just stick to frameflex and avoid using image resize.

That way you are using whatever source pixels you have.

Once you have applied frameflex to a source clip you can key frame it in the timeline.

[Pat Horridge]

Try breaking the sequence into smaller parts or try mixing down smaller groups of tracks.

[Pat Horridge]

What version MC and OS are you on?

What type of export are you attempting?

[Pat Horridge]

What happens if you launch and create a new project

Or launch and create new user settings first.