Hi Team,

I'm having issues adapting our workflow to this new Source Browser in Avid 8.6, and I'm hoping I'm missing something really obvious.

We usually create a share on our Evo server > Create a Shortcut > Store the shortcut in a folder called "EVO" on our C:\ e.g.

"C:\EVO\aa_masters_01 (192.168.199.242) - Shortcut"

> In Avid 8.4.5 we would select "Link to Media..." > Navigate to C:\EVO > Click on the shortcut > That would take us to the server, where we can then navigate to the files we want to link to. 

In Avid 8.6 however, I can navigate to C:\EVO, but then the shotcuts are just white icons (they look like a piece of paper with the top right corner folded over). Under the 'Type' column these files are listed as 'Unknown' and I can't use the Shortcuts to navigate to my server. 

I tried using the address bar and typing the following options:-

- 192.168.199.242\aa_masters_01 

- \\192.168.199.242\aa_masters_01 

- 192.168.199.242

- \\192.168.199.242

But these all resulted in the same error message; "Please check the path. The current entry is invalid."

The solution would be to map the drive using a letter, making it as easy as going to Z:\ instead of "\\192.168.199.242\aa_masters_01" but this is an awkward workflow for us as we have so many network drives. We quickly run out of letters to use. 

Does anyone know how to navigate to a network drive in Avid 8.6 Source Browser without having to map the share to a drive letter?

Thanks,

Sian

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My own workflow is to alt drag cards copied to a network

Wow. Mjolnarn. Thank you so much! That is going to make my life so much easier. 

From past experience, that has only worked with Quicktimes, as the Auto detect option for the AMA Plugin has only been able to detect those, but I just tested it with Canon 5D Quicktimes, Canon C300 XDCAM .mxf's and Sony FS7 AVC .mxf's and it worked a treat.

Thank you!!

My pleasure, I find myself using this workflow most of the time