This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Feature film edit stuck in "mounting volumn" loop

Saturday, May 11, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Feature film edit stuck in "mounting volumn" loop

Well as the song goes, "the cat came back, the very next day."

The problem cat in this case is the "unable to mount volumes" loop upon project start up.

After a few days of trying, and re-trying all the great suggestions here, I noticed how during the project launch avid would put a "white block" inside my project bin window, just under my VFX Clips bin.

Thinking this may be how an Avid engineer is trying to send me sign as to the problem (like smoke signals), I then decided to rename the recent round of VFX clips I put into the time line, making them off-line upon project launch.

This did the trick.

The project launched. And continues to. No more loops (for now).

In checking one of the VFX clips, it was WAY OUT of spec:

Dimensions: 3840 × 1080
Codecs: Apple ProRes 4444, Timecode
Color Profile: none listed

Our project spec is:

Dimensions: 1920 × 1080
Codecs: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), Timecode
Color Profile: HD (1-1-1)

So I've asked the VFX shop to re-do this shot to our spec, and am carrying on with the edit now.

Thanks again for everyone's help here. I'll probably need it again at some point! I just wanted to contribute the final solution to the record here, so to speak, in case anyone else falls down this hole.

-Roberto

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "roberto.miller@..." <roberto@...> wrote:
>
> Check. The ".avp" suffix is in place. Thanks for tip. I'm keeping note of ALL of them!
> -Roberto
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Michael Brockington <brocking@> wrote:
> >
> > See if your Avid project file is missing it's ".avp" suffix. If it is,
> > add it back on and see if that fixes the problem. When I ran into this
> > error before, that did the trick.
> >
> > It might also be due to the name of your project folder not matching the
> > name of your project file.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael
> >
> > On 13-05-07 4:35 PM, roberto.miller@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Shooting this flare into the air in hopes that one or more seasoned
> > > pros have some insight that will help us get back to cutting our film.
> > >
> > > Upon loading our project I get:
> > >
> > > "This volume has not yet been mounted by the application. You can
> > > either mount all volumes or load another project." It would be nice if
> > > it said which volume...
> > >
> > > Clicking "Mount all Volumes" leads to: "The volume was not found after
> > > mounting all volumes"
> > >
> > > Clicking OK leads to an infinitely repeating loop. Usually.
> > >
> > > I thought it might be due to a couple of minor VFX clips I received
> > > and put put into the last edit, but I took them off-line and the
> > > problem remains.
> > >
> > > Ideas to address this?
> > >
> > > System and Project stats:
> > > - MC 6.5.2 on Mac PB running 10.8.2, i7 core, Thunderbolt to 6TB media
> > > drive and a 255GB SSD drive for media renders
> > > - we are 95% AMA linked to Apple ProRes clips (which has been working
> > > fairly well for our production clips, despite 45 seconds to close any
> > > bin).
> > >
> > > Any help GREATLY appreciated!! Same for pointers to an Avid tech,
> > > particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Roberto Miller
> > > roberto@ <mailto:roberto%40puregrain.com>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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