HI, sometimes Media Composers relink funktion does not what you want. The rock solid solution I figured out is to give your old and new clips exactly the same tapename. We do not use Tape names in our workflow at all but sometimes when Avid does not relink we change the workflow. AFAIK (Pleas correct... (read more)

Hi there A colleague has prepared an offline edit using Avid 7.5 on a laptop and saving the project and all mxf files to an external hard drive. I have successfully transferred the project and all media files to the main edit suite (same software version) and I am able to edit, but the graphics on the... (read more)

does someone have a tutorial guide of how to go from offline to online i linked to ama transcoded the ama to dnx 36 put it on a separte bin the same for like 30 card then i have edited on the dnx 36 i have my sequence i hided the avid media files so the dnx goes offline and now when i try to rlink it... (read more)

I've searched the forums and haven't come up with an answer. I inadvertantly deleted everything on my media drive. I used a data recovery tool and restored most of the media to an outboard drive. Now all my files are in the root of this outboard drive. I tried relinking a sequence and some media... (read more)

I am working on a documentary project with several hard drives. Two of them are: #1 is for the main media composer projects along with their corresponding footage, music, animations, etc. and #2 contains all of my interview footage (AMA linked) The interview hard drive works like so. It contains all... (read more)

Hello, I have an issue with subclips. I have been logging quite a lot of footage, and I have created several subclips from this, however it turned out I had to transcode everything. The subclips are still linked to the original file, and not the new transcoded file. Is there anyway I can "copy"... (read more)

Folks: I'm running Media Composer 5.0.3 on a Dell Quad-Core 3.0 MHz system with 8GB RAM and Windows 7 Pro. I edit a series of training videos and we were working on a new one (call it NEW VIDEO). These videos repeat a lot of the same info and sequences, so we use a good deal of archived media, too... (read more)

Im working with some promos, and we cut these with the material from the completed episodes, each episode with seperate sequences. These sequences with the final episodes includes a full mix for the sound, but I have to get the dialogue mixes seperately and replace the full mix with these, which is fine... (read more)

I have upgraded from Media Composer 4 to 6 along with a computer upgrade. I copied all of the media files from 3 smaller hard drives, (in the same directory structure) into 1 new 3 TB drive. Copied the Avid Projects folder over, so the projects and timelines are showing but the media is offline. I have... (read more)

I'm trying some experiments with re-linking, just to help establish and gain confidence in the basics of media management and recovery. But when AMA linking to XDCAM-EX footage (BPAV folder-structure from an EX3), Relink fails to work. I know Relink works ok for media that has been Imported, and... (read more)