Hello,

I am in trouble after trying to move a project from an Xp workstation to a Vista laptop.

I thought that was easy, I was wrong.

I took my external drive with lots of media and bring my  project to my laptop (media coposer only).

It was not working (problem of avid domain header...) anyway I guess there is complication of autorisation, etc doing that, it was a try, nevermind if it's not working.

But now the huge problem I have is returning the media disk to my workstation a lot of media are not relinking to my project.

I identify them transfert in a new directories rebuild database. It's like 50% of clip which are offline.

The weird thing is, If I mediatool my disk every clips appears, are readable, editable. But as soon as I open a bin of my project, 50% of the clip disapear in mediatool, and sequence gets offline.

What I Tried.

-Load mediadatabase

-Redefined permission of the disk .

-delete and rebuild mediadatabase

-Relink, I get "no clip relinked" but in the console gives a list of "cannot merge NAME_OF_THE_CLIP#"

-Relink, unlinking first.

-deleting project settings, MC state...

-Batch importing, I was not surprising of the fail but it gives me an interesting clue in the console.

a lis like:

"can't find mob in bin 'NAME_OF_THE_BIN", item1:

4acc8806.00f4fb55

"can't find mob in bin 'NAME_OF_THE_BIN", item2:

4acc8965.00fa5459

etc..

The number is the same as the avidmediafile without the first part where you can guess Tape and tracks.

I am sorry I am probably confusing, but the situation makes me mad as I am reaching the media in mediatool but can't back up my editing work for weeks. As any bin keeps remain linking to  offline "ghost clip".

Thank you for your help.

Jm

Jm:

Just to clarify from your post what workflows you have attempted (which is a bit confusing), I am posting the following information:

First, regarding rebuilding media database files. The procedure is to quit the application. Then, from each numerical folder inside the MXF folder inside the Avid MediaFiles folder, delete the two files that identify by type as "MSM Media Database". If you have an OMFI MediaFiles folder, delete the same two files. On re-launch, the system will detect the missing files and build new ones at the "Initializing Media Streams Manager" stage. You will see the system go into a scanning and indexing mode at this point. This process should restore media to an online condition.

Next, the ground rules for media file folder management:

1) The "Avid MediaFiles" folder (for MXF media) and the "OMFI MediaFiles" folder (for OMF media) MUST reside at the root level of the media drive, never inside any other folders or the system will not find the media.

2) The folder names must always be the factory default names listed above (minus the quotes) or the system will not find the media.

3) There can be only one of each folder type on any given media drive.

And regarding permissions issues, check this procedure.

Larry Rubin:

And regarding permissions issues, check this procedure.

Thank you Larry

I can not reach your link.

My workflow is very simple I edit Online on a local workstation. As I said, making an attempt to transfert my files to my new vista laptop to try the trial version of MC4.0 was, I think my mistake.

When I bring my drive  to my workstation that was the mess as describe.

I made the database cleaning as you describe.

And I can see all my media from the drive using media tool, the problem is that when I open a timeline or a bin, they disapear from the mediatool (I know this is strange), and remain offline in the bin.

Is it a problem that I create my project in the shared project instead of the local (Private)?

Can that influence the relation between Clip and media autorisation?

thanks again and sorry for the english.

jm

I would like to force my clips to go to the media. But all my relink doesn't work.

Jm:

That link does work, but if it doesn't for you, try this one:

http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/attach/76762_Disk_Access_Denied.pdf

For a stand alone platform, it really doesn't matter where you have created the project as far as the three categories go: private, shared or external. So long as the browser in the select project window leads you to the correct path to find the specific project - if you can't find the project in the category you're currently in, click the browser button and re-define the path the the specific project you're looking for. Then, if you have successfully copied the specific project folder into the "Avid Projects" folder on your target platform system C: drive, and you have successfully copied both the Avid MediaFiles folder and (if present) the OMFI MediaFiles folder to your media drive on the target platform following the media folder ground rules, and rebuilt the database files with the procedure I provided, your media for the project should be online when you mount your sequence without any additional steps.

However, if you still have media offline issues and YOU ARE SURE you copied all media files over without anything missing, try highlighting the sequence and using the relink function targetting ONLY the specific drive you copied your media to.

I've moved projects and media from platform to platform many times, so I know this method works.

I know that my problem is really strange, I 've worked on Media composer for 9 year  and move many project, this is the first time I enconter this issue.

It seems my bins, clips, and sequences get corrupted.

At that stage the only solution I find is.

Creating a new bin where I copy all the clip of the media tool (revealing the media of my drive)

I discovered the only way to get all the media from my drive is to make a clear bin memory just before.

Then In my new bin I make a duplicate of all my clip.

So my newclip endind by ".copy" won't go offline when I am loading a sequence. I will have to rebuild my sequences....

Thank you for the link, I feel like it come from the access problem.

Do you know if it doesnt matter, if the "special permission" remains gray?

(I am doing it to the drive, I don't have parent).

You are a great support. 20 hours I am searching.

Regarding the access problem, make sure your OS user profile is at administrator level. If necessary, create a new OS user profile with administrator privileges and a new Avid user profile as well. A bigger concern however, is this:

collinedenice:

It seems my bins, clips, and sequences get corrupted.

What is it that makes you believe this to be true? Are you getting freezes while playing a sequence with pop-up errors? If so, what do they say?

If you don't get errors but still suspect corruption issues, you can try deleting the "(project name)settings.avs" file in the specific project folder. On re-launch of the application, the system will detect the missing file and build a new one. This file would be especially suspect if the problem is confined to this one project alone.

Let me tell you more about my project.

I work on a documentary with a huge amout af tape and media of all kind (beta, Hdv, dv, Photo archive, videofile).

There is a bit more of hundred tapes. an assistant digitize all the material on an external esata Drive, online, (2:1, Hdv, Dv), 90 hours of media.

The Raid Drive is a single partition with 2 directories.

The "Avid mediafiles" directorie

and a "source" directorie with original of photo, musique and videofile.

The Project is in The Local machine in the shared folder.

All my media are existing and are good as I can read them from the media tool.

But when I open a bin of my project, 50% of clips or sequence remain offline. 

I don't get any warning or pop up error from avid, nothing freezing. Just an offline issue. The only message from avid come from the console "Can't find mob in bin". 

I don't understand Avid get theRight tape name, the right Tc of the clip but can not reach the media. Why the clip and the media don't merge?

I tried to delete the ...setting.avs it doesn't change.

Batch digitizing will be too long, I am thinking about copying all the media to another drive to see if avid can relink my project to that one. 

If not I will have to re add all my locator" to the copy clip (see previous post), and redo quicky the ruff sequence.  (we are at the third week editing).

And in Bonus:

In the source directorie, I have photos that became unreadable, "no preview avaible" in explorer, can't open in photoshop.

The step by step "Disk access" That I made on the drive didn't bring them back. 

If you have any in formation about "mob in bin" I'll take it!

I'll let you know.

collinedenice:

The Project is in The Local machine in the shared folder.

If it's in a folder named "Shared Avid Projects", the project would be accessible in the shared category in the select project window.

You say that under certain circumstances you can get the media tool to display all of the media files, including the ones that associate with the offline clips. If you can cluster the specific "suspect" files in the media tool, you can drag them from the media tool into a project bin and new master clips should be created which will be linked to those media files.

And if all the currently offline master clips all point back to the same media drive, that would indeed make the drive itself suspect.

I found out where my problem was coming from.

I am explaining here just in case it can helps.

I was using "supercopier" a program that is replacing the windows explorer file copy feature.

The Supercopier2.1.9 corrupted the bin when I was copying it. 

My project was getting lots of error, "unable to open file..." or "invalid avid domain header.."

Update to supercopier 2.2, or removing the program is resolving the problem.

Thanks for the update.