[William Boodell]

Thank you!

[William Boodell]

I would like to hear some opinions, and this definitely helps. I thought there were perhaps generally accepted numbers to punch in on certain camera codecs and resolutions. I appreciate the feedback.

Thanks,
Bill

[William Boodell]

The issue isn’t with the clips in the timeline, but rather with the clips in the source monitor and the thumbnails in the bins. That’s where the images appear small, because the synced clips are still flagged for 4K, 5K and 6K etc… though I’ve reattached all clips to 1920×1080 files.

[William Boodell]

Hello Avideers!

One Method to “Relink” to Up-Res from Avid DNxHD to Arri Alexa ProRes 4444

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I post this in the hope that it will help others with the same or similar issues. After all, it’s all about getting a general sense of the processes and then extrapolating, isn’t it?

This was done using Avid MC 8.1.0. This fix should work for versions of MC after 6.5.

Problem:

I have clips which were individually transcoded to DNxHD 36 (HD1080p) in Da Vinci Resolve, electing not to include the “Reel No.” (or “Tape” in AVID) source name in the metadata, before I came to the project. The transcoding added a little numbered prefix to each clip because of the settings they chose.

I am taking a sequence that was edited with those DNxHD 36 (HD1080p) clips, and I am attempting to up-res them to ProRes 4444 shot on an original Alexa. I can see the RAW clips in the MC source monitor so that would seem to negate the possibility of the Arri Alexa plug-in not being present or not working. I’ve tried having the “Relink” function search for higher res clips. I get the error pictured: “No clips were relinked.” etc…

I’m simply trying to relink the sequence to the original camera RAW.

How can I get this to work?

Solution:

* First, keep in mind that this is a work-around because the “Reel No.” selection in Resolve was not selected when the footage was initially transcoded so I was working with footage that had nothing in the “Tape” field for video. Also, the transcoder chose to render unique file names in Resolve, adding unnecessary information to each clip name. This fix deals with those issues.

–Rename the “Avid MediaFiles” folder so that Avid doesn’t see the older low res files. Your sequence is now completely offline.

–Copy your edit sequence to a new bin. Choose “Commit Multicam Edits.”

–If you don’t need the audio, Subclip the video only from the sequence and delete the original new sequence in your new bin.

–Right-click and select “Set Bin Display,” turning on “Show Reference Clips.” Hit “Ok.”

–In the OFFLINE clips, erase the Da Vinci Resolve prefixes to the Camroll names and the underscore the comes after it (V1-XXXX_).

–Open up your RAW clips bins, and if there is more than one bin for them, move them all to one bin. Using the Media Tool is a quick way to do this. Close all other bins but that RAW clips bin and your OFFLINE sequence bin.

–Select the “Name” column in the bin and Duplicate that column (Cmd-D). You will get a dialogue box asking you where you want to duplicate this data to. Choose the “Camroll” column in this instance.

–Highlight all of your RAW clips in the bin where you’ve collected them.

–Highlight your OFFLINE sequence and right-click “Relink.” Select “Selected items in ALL open bins.” Choose “Start” under “Timecode” and “Camroll” for the “Source Name.” Your “Video Parameters” won’t be modifiable. At the bottom, you can elect to either create a new sequence of simply change the one you’re using. Now select “OK.”

–Your OFFLINE sequence will now relink with the RAW footage. (Note: It may be possible that dupe detection will have problems if you changed the original file names in the offline clips.) You have created matching fields between the set of OFFLINE edit clips and the set of RAW clips. Then the RAW clips and the OFFLINE sequence can talk to each other and link up using the timecode. Presto.

Thanks to John Moore and others on “The Avid Editors of Facebook” and on “creativecow.net” who attempted to help with the issue, and thanks especially to Vinnie Manierre who was able to figure out a quick, simple way to fix it. He even took time out of his probably busy day (as did John), and he remoted into my computer to take a closer look.

All your help is greatly appreciated.

Please let me know if any edits are needed here.

I wanted to provide a clear, concise and complete explanation of the process to make this fix, especially for people like me who are either new to Avid or getting back into it after working on other platforms for years.

Thanks again!
Bill

[William Boodell]

Hi John,

Thanks for your quick reply. Forgive me if I’m not understanding the obvious.

I’m trying to relink the roughly 2 minute sequence to the camera raw by showing the source clips and simply relinking them. For some reason, the original RAW camera footage isn’t in this project. (I just started on this feature today after it has been edited, and I’m helping them with the online process.) Are you saying to AMA link to the hours and hours of raw media from the project in a separate bin? As this is a feature, it will take a while so I want to make sure that’s what you mean.

Also, where is the option to “Link to Selected Bin” in the “Relink” dialogue box?

Thank you,
Bill

[William Boodell]

Thank you. We found that it was as simple as using the “User Order” in the “Sort Icons” drop-down menu. This keeps your thumbnail order. You can reorder the thumbnails/clips by clicking, dragging and dropping them where you wish them to be.

As far as I see, currently the list view order cannot be customized except by using the existing information columns. However one could also use numbers and/or letters in the “Name,” “Comment” or “Log Note” columns (for instance) to be able to maintain a separate order.

Thanks!
Bill

[William Boodell]

I’m trying to set a view in the “sort icons” menu, close the bin and then return to have it still be set to the same view. However, it keeps reseting to some other view, presumably a default. Is there any way to change this behavior? Perhaps there’s a way to set a sort view as default and have it stay that one when you close the bin?

Also, is there any way to arrange the clips in the order you want in either icon or list view (and naturally have them remain that way once you leave the bin and then return later)? In other words, you lay out the clips in the clip in the order that they would play in your piece. I haven’t seen a way to do this, so my work around is to sort them by using one of the columns such as “Comment” or “Log Note” to provide an order through numbers, letters or both. Is there a simpler way?

Thanks,
B