Sequence is cut with ISIS media and consolidated to removable drives. That consoldiated sequence is re-edited with non-ISIS media.

What is the best way to relink the new sequence to the original ISIS media before consolidating the extra media from the removable drives back onto the ISIS?

Many thanks

T

We do not have an easy way at the moment to accomplish this. I discussed this with a few people here and here is a procedure that can be used:

      1)       Consolidate the whole Sequence from ISIS to a removable drive – note the date/time

2)       Disconnect form ISIS - Work with the Sequence with media on the removable drive – add new media

3)       Before reconnecting the drive to a system that is also on ISIS, sort you media files on the drive by date/time and move all “old” media files (the one that already exist on ISIS when you started) to a non Avid Media Files directory (or a directory that won’t be scanned by MI in Interplay mode)

4)       Now connect the drive (note below that the editor needs to be in standalone mode for this step) – the sequence should be online with the new media on the drive and the old media on ISIS

5)       Consolidate the sequence to ISIS – only new media should be consolidated

 Additional comments (from the engineer who tried this in the lab):

 I was able to follow the workflow you suggested.  But this can only be done if you put the editor in to stand-alone mode first.  The relink to the original media on ISIS will not happen in Interplay mode because some of the relink functionality is grayed out.  So between steps 3 and 4 you need to set the editor to be stand alone mode.  Then whey you relaunch the editor, you must wait for it to index all of the ISIS workspaces before it gets to the project selection window.  Once you load the sequence you will also find that though it relinks to the master clip media, it will not relink to the rendered FX files, so you must re-render all of the original FX.  Then when you consolidate back to ISIS you must be sure to choose the same ISIS workspace where the media files lived originally and select the "skip media files already on taget drive" option.  Otherwise the consolidate process will not skip the original media files and will consolidate everything, which defeats the purpose of this whole relink process.  So this solution wouldn't really work for customers whose sequence contains original sequence media exists on multiple workspaces.

Once that is done you can switch back to Interplay mode, but this requires quitting and relaunching the editor. 

Basically this workflow would only be practicle if the customer has a sequence that contains a lot of media files that would make it worth all of the extra time and effort.  It may just be faster and easier to just consolidate the whole sequence back to ISIS if they can spare the extra storage space the .new files would take up.