Hi, We just installed a NEXIS/Media Composer combination on a Windows 10 box. Prior to that, we were using Media Composer with two Dolce drives. Our old workflow consisted of putting all of our non-Avid-transcoded files on a QNAP server that we accessed on the network. The QNAP file structure was based... (read more)

Hi! Any knowledge here would be of great help. Working with a company that just set up a new storage space on a custom server. I work off of Avid currently on a raid drive, but would like to utilize the space on our new server. It's not a server at all affiliated w/ Avid: we are running a custom... (read more)

Please,are there plans to tightly integrate 3rd party R&A services within Avid MC the way Adobe and FCP have done with Wipster io and Frame io ? Or if not does Avid have something similar? I'm a long time user of Avid MC and prefer to stay with it, but it's these little jump aheads the competition... (read more)

Hello! I took on a short film that was shot on the Arri Alexa Mini. The footage is anamorphic shot in 4K UHD 16:9 prores XQ. I'm trying to bring it into Avid 8.5 using AMA and I can't figure out how to unsqueeze it. I've tried going into source settings and changing the image size to 1920x1080... (read more)

Hi everybody. Need help with 4k workflow. I've AVID MC 8.6.3 and I need to start to make an editing of an documentary. The documentary was shoot in 4k with a SONY FS7 in XAVC-I at 250mb/s of bitrate. So the file are .mxf My Mac is not able to edting this files in 4k, so I cant "AMA" (or... (read more)

Hi folks, hoping you might be able to help me with this headache. I work on a drama that's shooting abroad for five days. Due to the post schedule we need to get the footage back daily. Unfortunately the internet upload speed out there is about 2-3mbps. So our usual offline resolution of DNX36 won't... (read more)

I have footage filmed with Sony FS700. It was shot at 4k and handed to me in HD mov. files On importing the files, a dialogue box opened saying: The file you imported has a video resolution that differs from the that selected in Media Creation settings. I selected "Change the video resolution to... (read more)

Hi all As you can probably guess by the subject line, I'm working on a project that has video files with different frame rates. My question is in regards to the workflow. I'm doing the offline edit on AVID, I will then be re-linking the timeline to be sent to DaVinci for grading and then have... (read more)

Hi, I have to build a workflow in which Maya animators can export DNxHD 115 directly, to feed to editorial. I think the animators can export the MXF files, howerever, I'm not sure how to get them into Avid afterwards. The easiest workflow would appear to be to have the animators export quicktimes... (read more)

I am bring footage (1920X1080, 50 Mbps) from a Canon XF105 to MC 6.5. I don't want it to be AMA linked I want the files on local storage. So, to import the footage to MC is there any differance or advantage to AMA link them and then transcode vs using a third party converter to convert from MXF to... (read more)