From a consumer camera (or have they 'edited' it with VLC???): vlc-record-2017-01-25-16h10m36s-AA010701.MXF-.avi

It totally crashes Avid with a nasty 'assertion failed' system error on an AMA link or straight import.

Sorenson spits it out too.

Plays lovely with VLC!!!

What is this demon?

Thanks

This is a total stab in the dark, but what if you duplicate the file and give it a more simple name without all the dashes and then try to bring it in?

can you try to rename it and then remove "-.avi" at the end and try if that works?

i know that you can capture with VLC, maybe this file came from that

you can also install mediainfo to know what exactly this media is.

Good shout Carl but renaming file to just 'clip 1' and tryin an AMA still brings the walls tumblin' down:

This is the actual file type details:

Cheers

Oh, that's an MPEG, not going to work with MC

You can try to convert this with handbrake(i hope it works there)

If VLC can open the file, it can also convert it to an Avid friendly format.