[Pat Horridge]

The best way to work is to ensure the MXF 1 folder is always empty before you start a session.
As you import/consolidate/Transcode/render/create titles etc the MXF media will be placed in the 1 folder.
When the sessions done and you’ve quite MC and made a backup copy of your Avid project (we all do that right?)
rename your 1 folder to a new number.
If you use 100 for project A and 200 for project B and 300 for project C you then have 99 potential project number media locations to use so as you continue on each project you just rename the 1 folder to the next free number for that project.
Keeping lots of small folders makes rebuilding media databases much quicker and generally MC prefers lots of small folders rather than 1 big one.
When done you can then collect all the media for that project and copy it else where as a backup.

And you can edit with AMA linked media (but not avid MXF media files via AMA) and for short form work with fast machines more folks are cutting directly with AMA linked media. We tend to use consolidating or Transcoding for longer form work or slower systems having to access H264 content.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

No not capture then subclips. Subclip and name those subclips while capturing.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

Any edit assistant worth their salt would also know you can use F1 F2 to log in and outs and be able to type the clip name live while the capture happens and end up with one master clips and lots of subclips.
Scene detection is only possible from DV or HDV sources due to the TOD code also present in the data stream.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

The QT none vodec is one of the QT options so outside MC. Sounds like a QT change.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

Don’t forget to use the refresh sequence command after making format changes to update the motion adapters.
use field stepping from the command palette to check if interlaced or progressive (only works in an interlaced project)
if you do cut interlaced into a P project the green dots are the deinterlace process.Tweak the motion adapter properties for the desired effort level.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
T +44 (0)20 7505 4701 | F +44 (0)20 7505 4800 | E pat@vet.co.uk |
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[Pat Horridge]

Well I guess you could try. Nothing lost.
You are on 6.5.2 aren’t. you?

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

Why not run the Mac version of MC? why jump through those hoops?
unsupported and you may have issues with graphics etc.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
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[Pat Horridge]

Of course the StorageDNA job software and MiniMAM creates an Archive catalogue and you can search that without the tape being present and compile a restore “ticket” ready to run against the actual tape. It even has the ability to link that catalogue to a folder of proxy files for preview if you’ve created them (outside StorageDNA)

But it’s still neat and “comforting” to a client to show them their mounted tape and what it holds just like a hard drive. For many we find they are far happier to see their content stored and accessible in a way they understand and not reliant on a software package for recovery.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
T +44 (0)20 7505 4701 | F +44 (0)20 7505 4800 | E pat@vet.co.uk |
http://www.vet.co.uk | Lux Building 2-4 Hoxton Square London N1 6US

[Pat Horridge]

We’re looking at CATDV integration via the worker node as an option but the StorageDNA setup comes with it’s own server and web based job management and “miniMAM” solution as well and that’s really quite nice and simple.
Curretnly the only true way to “Archive” (which needs to have an expected life of 100 years and be simple to retrieve duringt hat time) is printing back to film and I don’t imagine many have that sort of budget.
So LTO isn’t an Archive solution by that definition.
30 year life stated for the actual tapes (but most likley longer than that) And with a 2 version backwards read compatability our LTO-5 tapes will be good till LTO-7 which is on the development road track. Obviously LTO-6 buys you possible a few more years of player support.

We spent a lot of time looking at options and the technologies and a lot of players have vested interests in pushing their solutions and will of course work hard to find issues with alternative solutions. So finding a balanced view is near impossible.
We made the choice on LTFS based on it being a simple implementation and not being tied to a specific piece of software that would need to still be around in the future and need that OS available.
If LTFS gets included in future OS’s in the future then it’s even easier.
Teh really neat thing with LTFS is with the tape mounted I can browse to the StorageDNA server and actually read the tape in a shared folder.

[Pat Horridge]

If budget is tight I’d go LTO-5, we did, with a storagedna system. And we went the LTFS route to help longevity rather than propriety software like BRU
At least with an LTFS tape all I need is the drive and a driver for the OS and I can read the tape like a drive. I can catalogue it and restore files easily.
Buck per TB the LTO -5 prices worked out best and even the tapes are better value.
And at 1.5 – 3 TB its just right for drive copies.

Pat Horridge
Technical Director, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
VET
Production Editing Digital Media Design DVD
T +44 (0)20 7505 4701 | F +44 (0)20 7505 4800 | E pat@vet.co.uk |
http://www.vet.co.uk | Lux Building 2-4 Hoxton Square London N1 6US