Anyone have tips on separating audio and video media in the Avid MediaFiles folder? Used to be simple in the OMF days, since you'd basically sort by extension. Now that everything has the .mxf extension, how do I sort them out?

I used to use MediaMover (it would easily separate sound and picture), but the version I have here (3.03) only allows file filtering based on extension (and even that doesn't seem to work). I can't seem to find file filtering in MDV (but I'm far from an experienced MDV user).

I can of course still work around this by using the Media Tool, but for several reasons, that will be much more clunky and time consuming in my setup.

Any thoughts?

 In a related story,,,, many productions here continue to use OMF for audio to have even easier management of the audio only mediafiles since they are in different directories to start with...

Michael

I had thought of that in advance, but the downside is that sound folders tend to get really big, and MXF has this neat /1 /2 /3 folder structure.

I was thinking that, since the Avid knows how to tell V from A files, some third party app should be able to the same.

My current workflow is MXF only, on a Lanshare. The project has three workspaces, one for picture (captured), one for sound (imported production sound) and one that I render and import (music, vfx) to. The render partition is the one that contains both audio and video. It's that parition that is the source for incremental backups to my portable drive. For now, I'll just copy all files (V and A) from there to a new drive, then open that on a stanalone composer and delete all video files.