Just loaded in 10 hours to my main drives.

I copied all my Avid MediaFiles from my drive to my client drive and did QT refrence export with audio.
Pluged my client drive into his laptop and he can preview!

WOW!

I am  impressed with Avid.

Cool!  More for the "Why I Love Avid" thread.

This is one of the occasions where Avid's Media Management is golden. It makes things like that so very easy.

sorry to be so negative..

would be even better if you could load these QTrefs in MediaLog and let the client do logging and organizing.

and a dream is to do that with AMA-drives, aka XDcam_EX files

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/64810/365065.aspx#365065

but I did not check that recently. perhaps its included in the 3.5 update?

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I'm impressed too big time with the media management........its just like copy paste and the whole complication is avid's headache.........too cool....AVID rocks

magus:

would be even better if you could load these QTrefs in MediaLog and let the client do logging and organizing.

When you transfer the QTref files to another PC you break the link.  You have nothing left to play back.

The same applies to AMA media for a similar reason.  It's also an address-by-reference format.

Let me get this straight!?

You captured media to your edit drive?  You then also copied all that (MXF?) media to an ext HDD.  When you export your timeline cut as a QTR .mov and the client tries to play that .mov on his laptop with the HDD attached it all works?

Did I understand you right?

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Sorry no spell check

SLICK!

 DIESELE, yes that is correct.
Furthermore I did not stick to any strict format for folder location.
I just kept the names of the folder and put on my client drive.

I think it was D:/ on  my main media drive and the client drive booted up naturaley as D:/ and I copied the quick time refrence file to my desktop then to his desktop and perfect.

Diesele,

     My understanding is that so long as you make an exact copy of the original drive, and the client drive is named the same as the original edit drive, the QTrefs won't know that they they are on a different drive.  They are looking for "name" media on  "name" drive in "name" folder.  If those names haven't changed and the heirarchy is the same, it should find what it's looking for.