I have been running into similar issues, at a facility that uses AAF export with full res HD video as an archival solution, on promos.
I can routinely do AAF exports with full res HD video on version 5.0.3 of Media Composer, on a Mac. When that facility upgraded to version 5.0.3.9 we ran into issues on larger AAFs. I have made AAFs as large as 12 Gigs in the past, but now, AAFs larger than about 2 gigs just don't work when I go to re-import them. Also, there seems to be a upper celing of 4.29 gigs that they just won't go bigger than, and export fails.
I have tested this on Mac Media Composer version 5.0.3.8 as well with no luck. I can, however, back rev to 5.0.3 and AAFs work fine again.
More recently, the same facility upgraded to Mac Media Composer v 5.5.2.1 and large AAFs are still broken. I just downloaded and installed Mac MC version 5.5.3, and same problem. I have rebuilt settings, made new sequences, created new projects, nothing works, except downgrading to v 5.0.3.
An additional AAF issue we have run into since upgrading to Media Composer 5.5x is that AAF audio only exports with consolidate and embed is broken too. It builds an AAF, doesn't consolidate, but includes ALL audio media. Promo for a 30 second spot of a movie ends up being well over a Gig.
Our work around on audio AAFs is that we have to first consolidate the audio to another volume, and then make an AAF of the consolidated sequence.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA
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From: johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:21 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AAF 2GB Limit
I routinely import a 4 to 5 gig aaf from protools with my audio stems on an SNDX mac 4.0.5.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Ross Flint <rossf@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I have definitely imported AAFs larger then 2GB that were made using the
> "AAF Edit Protocol". I was working in MC 5.5.2 for both import and
> export last time I tried this, but I'm fairly sure I've done it in v4
> too. Probably always Windows though.
>
> Ross
>
> On 19/08/2011 00:55, Ian Johnson wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm been experimenting with exporting AAF files with embedded video as a
> > more elegant way to pass material around as a single file, rather than a
> > file and a media folder. I understand that checking the "AAF Edit
> > Protocol" box will allow you to create an AAF file bigger than 2 GB.
> > However I have never been able to open one back up in MC. I always get an
> > error - "Exception: AAF Domain: Failed to open file for reading.,
> > hr:-2147483644". It won't open on the Mac or PC versions of 5.03. Embedded
> > AAFs under 2GB work fine.
> >
> > Did Avid solve the problem of creating an AAF bigger than 2GB, without
> > solving the problem of opening one?
> >
> > Ian
> >
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> >
> >
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