Hello,
I am new to this forum and not an Avid-expert so hopefully somebody can help me.
I had a Avid MC 6.5 version on a laptop which died last week. Projects were saved on an external hard disc. I bought a new laptop and installed the trial version of MC 7 because I did not have acces to my 'old' version and login of Avid.
Would there be a possibility to use the projects I saved on the hard disc in the 'new' Avid version? Or do I have to make new project and import all the mxf files again?
Hope you guys have any ideas!
Thanks!!
Hi,
If you have the project folder - it's named the same thing as the project, and usually found in a folder called Avid Projects - and you have the project's media files - found in a folder called Avid MediaFiles - then you should be able to access the project with little trouble.
If you only have the project folder, then you can still open the project but you'll have to bring all the media in again.
If you only have the media, then you're out of luck. You can start again from scratch, but without the project folder there's no way to bring back any edited sequences.
Hope that helps.
Carl
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Hi.
Please remember:
META DATA is not the same as MEDIA.
META DATA is the information you have in the project. If you dont have the media you would get MEDIA OFFLINE message.
Please be sure MEDIA that corresponds your project lives on the external disk. You might find this article very interesting
https://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/datasheets/Avid%20Metadata%20Logging%20Tracking.pdf
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/en264715?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FTroubleshooting%2Fen264715&popup=true
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Christian Jhonson
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remieo: a laptop which died last week
What Camoscato said. But even if your project files are on the internal harddisk of the laptop not all may be lost. Your laptop may have joined the choir invisible in digital heaven, but the drive inside may still be fine depending on the cause of it's untimely death. Pull it from the laptop and put it in an external enclosure to get to the information if any is there to be had.
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Thanks for the answers! Figured it out thanks to the posts ;)
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