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A quick followup on my own question: someone on another forum suggested the free Shutter Encoder app — it’s able to swap audio tracks on files among other features. It still requires an extra step before encoding, but at least now I can output a single video file from Media Composer, quickly create multiple versions with different audio tracks, and then bring these into media encoder.

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Update since my response: Couldn’t figure out how to get tape tools running on the Mac so I swapped the drive over to the PC and ran it. Got several errors.

I sent it out to Midwest Technical and they diagnosed bad heads. Got it taken care of quickly and easily. Definitely recommend them.

Just ran the project backup again and everything is working as it should. Write and read speeds are now back to normal and the drive is running much quieter too.

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UPDATE: Couldn’t figure out how to get tape tools running on the Mac so I swapped the drive over to the PC and ran it. Got several errors.

I sent it out to Midwest Technical and they diagnosed bad heads. Got it taken care of quickly and easily. Definitely recommend them.

Just ran the project backup again and everything is working as normal. Used just over two tapes as it estimated and its running much quieter too.

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Thanks for the info — I’ll give them a call and report back. For what it’s worth, I used a brand-new cleaning tape.

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I was having trouble jumping through the hoops to get it to run on Mac so I plugged it into our PC to run tape tools. I received the same error several times even after running a cleaning tape once:

The soft unload operation failed to complete
Sense Key 0x06, Sense Code 0x2907 (I_T Nexus Loss Occurred), Error Code: 0x9408 SI_ERR_UA_NEXUS_LOST
Problems have been reported
The drive is no longer recommended for use

Backupworks told me that they no longer services the drives since it’s more cost-effective to just upgrade. He recommended upgrading to a Magstor LTO7. Hate to just trash a tape drive but I don’t see any other option than to upgrade. Probably better in the long run anyway to get a fresh LTO7 drive with a warranty.

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I realize that this is probably too late, but I didn’t have any issues popping a formatted card into my MacBook and copying the setup files, formatting the card in the camera, and copying the files back over from the MacBook.

What cards are you using? Are you copying the exact setup file folder structure over to the new cards? Not sure why the camera would want to reformat your cards unless something in the folder structure has changed.

On a related note, this process seems unwieldy unless I’m missing something. Are we expected to have a laptop with us at all times so that we can copy over the file setting every time we format a card? A little confused as to why the setup files only live on the SD card.

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I’m having a similar issue using BRU PE 3.1.2 and an HP LTO-6 drive. All was well up until our most recent shoot. Backing up 6TB of footage to LTO6 took a few days and was split over 5 tapes. Now the verify has been running for almost a week straight, and only halfway complete…

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Thanks all — I did have a chunk of files in the media cache, but I believe they were left over from when my settings were reset after upgrading to cc2019. In any case I deleted them and on startup there is now only about 100mb of IMS files. Some of the memory settings were also reset so I think that may have been causing issues as well yesterday.

I could try to split up the project, but this is a 40-minute documentary so it’s hard to tell what I’ll need to use and when.

There’s actually around 28,000 clips that it loaded this morning. Took about 45-minutes. Guess I’ll have to work that into my schedule.

I’m coming from avid, so I just want to make sure that I’m doing things properly the way Premiere wants me to.

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Also running into the same issue as well as the Sorenson Squeeze EOL.

The way to go right now, from what I can tell, is Export file>Avid Media Processor or MXF OP1. Either one outputs an MXF file with your choice of DnxHR flavor. Not quite as quick as a QT reference, but it’s much quicker than exporting a quicktime. For example, exporting a 20-minute sequence on my machine, 4K DnxHR in quicktime, was taking over an hour. Exporting an MXF takes less than 15 minutes.

The only problem I’ve encountered is that squeeze can’t read these DnxHR MXF files.

The one issue that’s keeping me from going to AME entirely is that it can’t link separate video and audio sources. I’m often delivering a video with multiple languages and audio versions, so it’s a huge timesaver to only have to export one video track, and create multiple audio versions with Squeeze.

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Was it transcoded in RedcineX and brought into avid? Or linked and transcoded within Avid?

This is my method when transcoding in RedcineX to avid MXF files:

Decompose your sequence, drop the decomposed Red clips into a new timeline, export EDL, import EDL into redcineX, transcode at your desired resolution to avid MXF, drop into avid media folder, and relink.