This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Transcode Crash/Saving What's Done

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Transcode Crash/Saving What's Done

Unless you have Interplay. You can still recover your clips if you have
Interplay / ISIS, but the process will be a little different. --J.B.

Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> I would do this:
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> - move said MXF files into a new numbered folder
> - launch MC and let it create a database and index for these files
> - open a bin and drag and drop the MDB file into the bin
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> This creates master clips of everything in that folder.
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Dodson
> davidadodson@sbcglobal.net <mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>
> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>
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> I was transcoding a whole bunch of RED files to DNxHD 175
> overnight using MC8.0's Consolidate/Transcode function. This
> morning, before all the clips were finished, I got one of those
> ridiculous "segmentation fault" errors and MC crashed.
> Consequently, I lost 13 hours of over night transcode work.
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> And yet, there in the MXF folder are all the MXF files that were
> generated overnight. Except MC, having crashed, never made the
> master clips in the project to which those MXF files link. So is
> there any way to, somehow, generate the master clips in MC such
> that they see and use the MXF files, that already exist?
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> I might be explaining this in a confusing way, but perhaps there's
> some way to avoid having to do this all over again. I mean, it's
> agonizing — the MXF files are done. They're right there! It's just
> that MC doesn't /know/ they're there. Is this fixable?
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> Thanks,
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> DD
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> David Dodson
> davidadodson@sbcglobal.net <mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>
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