Monday, August 29, 2011

RE: [Avid-L2] Re: AAF 2GB Limit, and Audio AAFs broken

 

I am trying to do the >2GB AAFs for archiving promos as well. It isn't
working on 5.0.3.7 on the Mac, and it didn't work for me on the PC, though I
don't remember if the PC was 5.0.3.0 or .7 Large AAFs of the finished
promos from Symphony work fine, which is what I want to archive anyway.

I had been wanting to use an embedded AAF to send offlines to finishing.
Much of the time we work from dailies delivered to us on HDD at DNxHD 175,
so we send the consolidated media on to finishing along with the cut. Using
a media files folder works well enough, but I like the elegance of a single
file.

For protools, I change to NTSC 23.98 and create a DV mixdown.

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
johnrobmoore
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:32 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AAF 2GB Limit, and Audio AAFs broken

Curious where are you sending the aaf's with HD video? Is it for Protools
picture reference? I've been mostly SD of late and they export .dv streams
for our protools set up. Were running protools 7.4.2 ish. They had problems
with version 8 a year or so ago and just back revved and stayed there
because it works for them.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , Dave
Hogan <mactvman@...> wrote:
>
> 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. Â When that facility upgraded to version 5.0.3.9
we ran into issues on larger AAFs. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â I just downloaded and installed Mac MC
version 5.5.3, and same problem. Â 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. Â 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
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: johnrobmoore <bigfish@...>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:21 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AAF 2GB Limit
>
>
> Â
> 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 <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.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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> >
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