[Pat Horridge]

A couple of things.
Have you tried transcoding?
Is the destination drive the correct format (ie not file size limited)
Have you tried sub clipping the main clip and consolidating that?

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[Pat Horridge]

Or make sure you create a stereo destination track in the timeline to edit to.
Stereo tracks show as having two small speaker icons. Mono only have one.

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[Pat Horridge]

I prefer to have the setting on and expand the timeline control panel so I can select which tracks show waveforms.

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[Pat Horridge]

Yes this auto mount feature is a real pain. Mount a USB stick with a load of media and Avid AMAs the lot. Mount a network share and the same happens.

Unfortunately it’s all or nothing. If you turn of auto mounting all AMA. Functionality is turned off

But AMA mounted clips aren’t imported. Only master clips are created no content is moved or created.
So it’s not so bad. And if you need that AMA content it’s there. Except of course you plan was to move it to a sensible place first!

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[Pat Horridge]

Yes they should. But I’d just AMA to them. No need to make yet more media!

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[Pat Horridge]

Although it’s quick to just drop externally made MXF files into the Avid mediaFiles MXF folders just be aware that the media has no project metatdata so the Avids Media tool will fail to see that media associated with any Avid project making the use of the media tool less helpful.
The prefered method is to AMA and then Transcode to make the Avid media. But you need MC of course.
Also there’s a need trick (unsupported) to get all the clips from a bunch of MXF files into a bin.
After you drop the new MXF files, externally created, into the Avid mediaFiles folder and let MC launch and scan them (to build the databases) at explorer/finder level find the file in that foldr Avid will have created called msmMMOB.mdb and drag and drop it into an empty Avid bin inside MC while it’s running and it will be populated with all the clips in that MXF folder.

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[Pat Horridge]

Are you sure you have a Trisync reference to the Avid that matches the one to the VCR?
This can cause a frame shift.

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[Pat Horridge]

The problem with EDLs is they contain so little information. Basically clip names and position in the timeline along with limited effect support so as you’ve discovered you have to match clips to sources.
AAFs contain far more information and can include the path to the source clips.
There are two methods. One is to reconfrom in Avid to a DNX resolution greater than DNX36 (DNX175 as you suggest would be ok but more compressed than the 444 sources) and then import that into Resolve and point it to the Avid Mediafiles folder and it should find those sources.
The second option involves importing the AAF (linked to DNX36 or DNX175) but then telling Resolve to use alternative sources (The ProRes files)
All that said there are still a number of “rough” edges around the Avid to resolve round trip and you’ll need to get back again sucessfully.
I for sure wouldn’t be sing this for a real job until I’d tested it fully first. There’s a good chance you will have to prepare the Avid timeline before you export the AAF to remove elements that will most likely scupper the process.

[Pat Horridge]

We’re setting up a Z800 with Quadro 4000 and GTX 580 card and it really flies.
I think the days of Mac work horses are near the end and Apples going to concentrate on the mobile devices with the faster turnover and get even richer.
And thankfully Avids DNxHD codec is slowly replacing ProRes. More and more kit is offering DNxHD as well as ProRes. Apples attempt to lock the post business into only Apple hardware ensured ProRes was never going to be a universal codec.

[Pat Horridge]

Try the Artist Color panel. That works well with Resolve.