PCM (MXF) audio does have a .mxf extension.
I believe you can still select .WAV audio but I think that ends up in
an OMFI MediaFiles directory. Old school.
On 6/27/11, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:
> Good thing to check, Robert. All files in the MXF folder say V01.
>
> I thought that the audio files in the MXF folder had .aif or .wav suffixes,
> too. That was one of the first things I checked, but then I thought I might
> be wrong and that even audio files have .mxf suffixes. Does anyone know if
> that's true? I think it is, but I'm unsure.
>
> The DRIVE that all of the video clips are linked to is my RAID, not the USB
> drive. (according to the DRIVE column in the bin) I don't have any audio
> clips in the bin, so that doesn't help me find where the audio is on a
> drive.
>
> Thanks Ben, too for the all drives console command. Unfortunately, after
> running it, the Media Tool is still empty. Trashing Media Databases also
> fails to fill Media Tool.
>
> I appreciate those suggestions. Like I said, I think they forgot to send the
> audio. Looks like that's the case. Thankfully my lip reading skills are
> impressive and I can do great sound effects and music production with my
> mouth. If you see promos on air for an un-named TV show with me reading all
> of the parts and where the sound effects and music sound like they were done
> by an adolescent boy with his first karaoke machine, you'll know I worked on
> them.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Robert Lawson wrote:
>
>> If you look into the mediafiles directory, do you see any files
>> starting with <tapename>a01...?
>>
>> If you don't, then they didn't give you any audio.
>>
>> You could also turn on the Drive column in your bin view, which may
>> tell you where the system thinks the clips should be - although you
>> may just see the drive where the video media resides.
>>
>> If you do see "a01." files, then maybe check the ownership and
>> permissions of those files.
>>
>> On 6/27/11, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@contactben.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A couple shots in the dark:
>> >
>> > Console command:
>> > alldrives
>> >
>> >
>> > Trash the media databases?
>> >
>> >
>> > But, I bet you're right that they didn't give you the audio.
>> >
>> >
>> > B
>> >
>> >
>> > Benjamin Hershleder
>> > http://ContactBen.com
>> > http://Hershleder.com
>> >
>> > Wear It In Post!
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>> >
>> > On Jun 27, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
>> >
>> >> A client sent me multiple TV episodes on a USB drive to produce promos.
>> >> The shows were digitized on some MXF capable version of Avid and
>> >> transferred from their servers to the USB drive. In addition to the
>> >> media,
>> >> they sent me a bin with the clips and sequences in it (but no project,
>> >> which I think was the right thing to do).
>> >>
>> >> There are video master clips in the bin that they sent, but no audio
>> >> master clips. But there are sequences where they synced the 10 audio
>> >> tracks with each video track for each show. I can see the video, but
>> >> the
>> >> audio is off-line. Option to relink is greyed out.
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to figure out if my "Avid" is "broken" or if they didn't
>> >> send
>> >> the audio tracks.
>> >>
>> >> So I go to the Media Tool. Select the drive they sent and choose ALL
>> >> projects, then click the choices for Media Files and Master Clips. I
>> >> get
>> >> NOTHING in the resulting bin.
>> >>
>> >> I can see that the video is there (in the source or record monitor and
>> >> the
>> >> bin doesn't show anything in the "offline" column), so at least the
>> >> video
>> >> should show up. I figured that they possibly used multiple project
>> >> names
>> >> to digitize the shows (hence I selected "ALL PROJECTS"). What could be
>> >> causing me to get no results when I know that there's media on the
>> >> drive?
>> >> (The drive has an Avid MediaFIles folder, with an MXF folder inside
>> >> that,
>> >> with a 1 folder inside that. I can see maybe 200 mxf files inside the 1
>> >> folder. I see moving video of the shows in the Source window. And the
>> >> USB
>> >> drive is seen by the Finder AND the Avid AND the Media Tool.
>> >>
>> >> When I put the clips in the timeline and turn on audio waveforms, I get
>> >> nothing. I tried changing the sample rate in the project. I also turned
>> >> on
>> >> Clip Color>Offline and the audio shows up as RED.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for any help. If the answer isn't readily apparent to anyone,
>> >> don't
>> >> worry too much. I think I really didn't get the audio, but why doesn't
>> >> the
>> >> Media Tool at least show me the video that I'm SURE is available with
>> >> the
>> >> drive selected, ALL Projects selected and everything else selected
>> >> except
>> >> precomputes. BTW, there are no effects on any sequences, audio or
>> >> video.
>> >>
>> >> Bug? Operator Error? Maybe the setting on the Media Setting needs to
>> >> allow
>> >> for the USB drive somehow? I've copied all the media to my RAID, but I
>> >> don't want to search my RAID for all media and all projects.
>> >>
>> >> Steve Hullfish
>> >> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
>> >> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> >
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>> >
>>
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>> CBS News
>>
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