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Anytime!
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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For example, if you import a quicktime, it will convert it to MXF media and place it in a folder Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1 but you choose to separate it into Avid MediaFiles\MXF\100. Copy only the MXF files. Don’t copy the creating folder, or the PMR or MDB files. However, since you’ve modified the “1” directory, you should delete the PMR and MDB files. Avid will see those are missing and it would rebuild those database files and it indexes everything. It will also notice that you moved footage into the 100 folder, and index those files, creating an MDB and PMR in that folder. If you later decide to move more media into that 100 folder, you should delete the MDB and PMR in the 100 folder and let Avid rebuild again so that it always has updated database files. In general, it will catch when the contents of that folder change, but sometimes it doesn’t or doesn’t index properly until you delete those files and let it rebuild.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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The MDB and PMR files are your Avid Database files. MDB (Media Database) not sure what the PMR acronym is. The creating folder is where media will live while it is being actively captured or transcoded. Once that process is done, it is moved into the numbered folder where it lives. So, your Avid Media files is as is VolumesAvid MediaFilesMXF1 (Unless you’re on a Unity In which case it will be VolumesAvid MediaFilesMXF1ComputerName.1)
If you want to separate media, you can import or capture and immediately create a “2” folder and or any numbered folder to move media into. Keep in mind, the 1 folder will always be where the newest media will be transcoded to. Sometimes I’m importing large amounts of media, I’ll import it to the 1 folder and create a folder 100 and move the media into there. The reason the folders are numbered is that Avid will manage your file counts in your folders. After 5000 files, it will create a new numbered folder to keep the overall file counts in each folder down. The fact is, I try to keep my file counts under 2000 especially on large projects with massive amounts of media. At a certain point, it seems that file counts become less of a problem with the Avid, and more of a problem on the operating systems. You’ll notice when you click on folders with large amounts of files, it takes a while for it to resolve itself. Keep in mind, every time you move media between numbered folders, you should delete the MDB and PMR files and allow Avid to rebuilt those database files.
As far as moving media around, Automatic Duck’s Media Copy is fantastic. https://automaticduck.com/products/mc/
This can move media by bin, or by project. You hit it right on the head, as far as V1 being video track one, and A1 and A2 being audio tracks.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Nothing to really fix bad focus. Sharp filters only enhance the edges, but won’t fix bad focus. Reshoot is the only way to get that taken care of.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Alt (or Opt) drag the “Trim to Fill” effect from “Timewarp” in your effect pallette, and trim the clip out to 8 seconds and you should be good to go.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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The XDCAM quicktime codec is a part of the AppleHDVCodec.component that is installed when Final Cut Pro is installed. If you have access to system with both Avid and Final Cut installed, you can set up an export setting to export to an XDCAM quicktime. You could also export a same as source Quicktime out of the Avid and bring that file to compressor on a system that has Final Cut Pro in order to do that. That’s how I’ve done it in the past. I know Calibrated will decode XDCAM, but I don’t know if it will encode XDCAM.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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If you’re using OSX’s built in File Sharing feature, the Avid might not see the drive unless you use the “alldrives” console command. If the media is on system 1, and system 2 is connect via ethernet, I wouldn’t allow system 2 to render, import, or capture to system 1. That is because the Avid, by default is going to want to write files to the AvidMediaFiles>MXF>1 directory, but if you have two system trying to simultaneously write media to that folder, it will most likely cause problems. The Unity software changes this, where the Avid will create a folder based upon the computer name and then numerical numbers. So Instead of AvidMediaFiles>MXF>1 It would be AvidMediaFiles>MXF>Edit01.1
Just be careful about your media creation settings.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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People have run it on Snow Leopard, but it’s not qualified. For the record, I still hear horror stories from Final Cut users about how horrible Avid is. Avid users give me horror stories about Final Cut. Horrors stories are all somewhat true but all mostly blown out of proportion. I’m using MC6 on 10.7.3 and haven’t noticed anything huge that didn’t also sometimes occur on MC 5.5.3 on 10.6.8. If you use Stage Tools a lot, I’ve heard about some issues with that, but I would recommend just moving to Lion and going with the recommended setup.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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What about the file path that your clips are in? I’ve seen the Avid give that error if, for example you files are in a folder called “7/31”. There’s a slash in the name and that will trip up the Avid.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Do your filenames have illegal characters? Exclamation points, commas, periods, and especially slashes are a no no.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks