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When 7 first came out it was a little buggy (Though surprisingly not bad for a .0 release) but I’m using 7.0.3 right now and I don’t notice anything abnormal in regards to crashes. I like it.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Mark an In and Out in the area you want to delete everything. Make sure the tracks are activated, then hit x to splice.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It’s looking for the media on ET31B (Z:), but did you copy the media to separate drive? A great tool to make sure you have the media copied is “Media Copy” from Automatic Duck. https://www.automaticduck.com/products/mc/
The tricky thing with tracking were your media is, I’d need to know how you setup your project, what drives you were originally using, what is the situation now and what drives are removed from the equation to track your media. Very very hard to do without seeing your setup.
If you’re positive the media is there, first step is always to rebuild your database files and then move to relinking.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Let’s just get you up and running. Going over tape (and the many varieties of tape formats) and tapeless (and the infinitely vaster varieties) would take a long time (and quite frankly it would encompass more time than I can offer on a forum)
I’m assuming you tried what I wrote in the last post and it didn’t work?
When you transcoded your footage, you selected your system drive? (Or an external) We need to make sure the media is on a drive, and if the issue is that the Avid can’t see it, we need to make it see it. Otherwise, if the footage is simply not there, we need to track down what drive the footage is on. There’s a collumn in your bin, when you set it to “Text” view called “Drive”. That will show you what drive the Avid expects to see the footage on. Are you maybe missing an external drive that should be there?
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I think you’re talking about Fluid Morph, it’s in the Effects Palette under “Illusion FX”
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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4k footage won’t do you any good in Avid 6.5. Avid 7 could use FrameFlex, but not 6.5.
Regarding how it comes out of Lustre, I haven’t used Lustre but what is very common is that your grading software will kick out the MXF media (With handles, discussed between you and your colorist) and an AAF that you’ll drop into a bin and it’ll contain your sequence. Of course, you’ll want to A/B match for repositions and speed changes. But I’d say that’s most likely the situation.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It’s also a third party product, so probably not a great answer to your question, but I still say if you have it, you can’t beat After Effects. CS6 or above will import linked AAFs using Pro Import, and CS5.5 and older will import them using Automatic Duck (which is now available for free at https://www.automaticduck.com)
It will cache audio and play it back. Not great but it will do it. Still, it’s quick, offers great options for dynamic movement, motion blur, resolution independent.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There’s a variety of things that could be causing this. Coming from FCP, I empathize, I started on FCP. First things first. Avid handles media very differently from FCP. FCP can store media anywhere.
On Avid, it will always be on the root of your drive in a folder called (Hard Drive)>Avid MediaFiles>MXF>1 (If if you’re on a Unity or ISIS It will be (Workspace)>Avid MediaFilves>MXF>(ComputerName).1
In the 1 (or computer_name.1) there will be a folder called “Creating”, your mxf media, a pmr file and an mdb file. The PMR and MDB files index the media and tell tell Avid what’s there. Sometimes those files get corrupted. The first step I’d take is, delete those files. You can even do this while Avid is currently open. The Avid should immediately notice this and start rebuilding those files. If your media immediately comes online, you’re done! If not, next paragraph.
If the Avid does not start immediately rebuilding those databases, you have might be having write permission issues with that folder. Try checking the drive and folder permissions. Also, sometimes simply restarting the Avids software will make it database those files.
If those two steps didn’t work, before you try relinking, go to File>Load Media Database
If that doesn’t work, you might need to relink your files.
Select your master clips, right click or go to Clip>Relink. Is your media captured from tape or tapeless? I’m guessing most likely tapeless. You probably want to uncheck “Match case when comparing tape and source file names” and check “Allow relinking of import/AMA clips by Source File Name”
Clearly, there’s a lot to check and try, but see if this gets you on your feet.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There are couple of simple ways to do this. The easiest would be to load the master clips (with 4 tracks of audio) into the source monitor. Mark the entire duration of the clips and make sure only V1, A1, & A2 are selected. Subclip. You should now have sub clips with only 2 tracks of audio.
Alternatively, you could unlink the master clips, modify the tracks (removing track 3&4)
First, make sure the clips are offline. If you’re on a Unity or ISIS, unmount the workspace with the media files. If your media is local, you could temporarily move the 1 folder out of the Avid MediaFiles>MXF folder.
To unlink clips (Hit “Shift” + “Command” and right click to find the “unlink” option)
‐ Lasso all clips and right click “Modify” and “Set Tracks”. In the Set Tracks window, deselect tracks 3 & 4
– Mount the workspace (or move the 1 folder back into Avid MediaFiles>MXF)Keep in mind this will leave the two empty tracks of MXF files taking up space. If we’re talking about a few clips, it won’t take up that much space, but if it’s all of your dailies, that could easily add up.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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What kind of hard drive is your footage stored on? Is it a RAID? Likewise, how are you connecting to it? Firewire 800 should be the absolute minimum. E-sata would be preferable.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks