Here's the situation: There are three "rolls" and I only have copies of the original P2 cards. My assistant (a year ago) copied the media on two backup drives and then transcoded the media to Avid DNxHD files etc...and all seemed well. I've only been working with the first two rolls up to now, but as I recently moved to the third roll

Can I put the audio AIFF files in the same Avid MediaFiles folder? On my NTFS drive, they're in an OMFI files folder.

I'm having problems with my Mac Avid reading about 1.5 TB of media files on an NTFS drive...basically all the media on the NTFS drive is "OFFLINE." Relinking won't work. And so consolidating is out of the option since I can't see the media. So I've decided to just move all the MXF files at the FINDER level from the NTFS drive

Thanks for the info... Well, I DO have write access to the NTFS drive...I altered the script in the Mac to read this drive. I DID try what you said...I moved the drive back to the PC, rebuilt the database...then moved the drive back to the MAC...and it WORKED...for a minute. The media was online, everything was fine...and suddenly, the MAC seemed to

Here's my workflow in general... My project (1080i/60 HDV) was originally on a PC, began on Xpress Pro. Transfered project file to my Mac Pro...and mounted original drive NTFS media (from original system) to the Mac...DON'T worry...I scripted the Mac to read/write to this original drive, which it does fine. HOWEVER, I did change the DRIVE name

I want to run AVID MC as usual on one/two computer monitors...but would like to have a third HDTV monitor with HDMI input... BUT, I am SOFTWARE ONLY. Will the HDMI out of my Mac to the TV be sufficient so that ONLY what's in the composer window will show? I don't want the client monitor to show my who Avid interface...just the selected source

Thanks Pat...sounds like a good plan... I suppose the DNXhD/H.264 route is usually the way to go. What say you re: the second question, namely the .m2t file. Why does AVID have the HDV export setting to create .m2t files...what does one do with those? Thanks.

I am trying to export a 1080i/60 HDV clip/sequence same as source. As many of you know, the error message is "CANNOT EXPORT GOP MEDIA SAME AS SOURCE." Essentially I want a full res Quicktime "master." What's the best way? QUESTION #1: If I do transcode to export, what is THE best/most accurate transcode setting to use in your

Any suggestions on the best workflow ? I'm getting the footage in Apple ProRes 422...want to bring it into Xpress Pro 5.2.3... what's the best codec to use to transcode and get it into Avid? And then, what about on export if they want to have it back in ProRes 422 to some finishing to the cut in FCP? Thanks.

Here's the problem, whenever I try to move those MXF files or do ANYTHING to them...i get an error message saying "access denied." i can go inside other folders and move other media files (that are slept in xxxxxxAvid MediaFiles) but not into the ones I need.... In fact I can't even UNSLEEP the folder in question. It's now "xxxAvd