While importing P2 material from a Firewire drive, I've been receiving the following two error messages, in tandem, but please read the sequence of events below, because I've seen other discussions about these error messages on this forum, but none of them quite match the situation I'm in.

Error Message #1: "An error occurred reading the Database file for the directory "...CONTENTS:AudioException:'omfiHPDomain_INIT_FAILED'."

Error Message #2: "The Database file msmMOB.mdb may be corrupted."

Now, these are the circumstances under which it began happening:

I received a drive from our cameraman containing five folders, labeled "Card 1" through "Card 5," representing P2 cards he shot over the weekend.

Using the File>Import P2>Clips to Bin function, I "soft imported" (not the official term, I know) the material from the first folder so that the director and I could watch and take notes, etc., before going through the more time consuming process of transcoding. This worked fine for the folders "Card 1" through "Card 3."

During the import of clips from "Card 4," I received the messages above. Although Avid successfully imported video and correctly gave me four audio channels per clip, the audio media showed to be offline. This then happened with "Card 5."

After the standard routine of restarting, deleting media databases (since I wasn't transcoding the material, the Avid was not likely referencing my Media Database anyway), etc. I found that I would now get this message while attempting to import any P2 media, including:

A) The folders "Card 1" through "Card 3," which I had successfully imported and viewed only just minutes before.

B) P2 material from a previous shoot, on that same Firewire drive.

C) Copies of that previous shoot that I had transferred to a separate Firewire drive.

The errors occur regardless of which drive I have specified as my media creation drive (not that I was creating media) or what drives I have mounted or offline.

In summary: without a moment's notice or anything unusal happening, my Avid went from being able to successfully import P2 material, to importing only video -- no audio -- and issuing the above error messages in the attempt.

Any help will be appreciated.

Darrin

Rename your Avid MediaFiles folder to something else and try the import again buy selecting Import P2 Clips and then Import P2 Media (If you've already done step 1 skip to step 2).

You shouldn't need to transcode anything.