Friday, November 22, 2019

[Avid-L2] Consolidating Music Clips to Nexis increases their size 50% to 300%

We got audio mxf files from a music company along with  avid bins but when they consolidate the files to our nexis they file sizes of mxf audio files are increasing from 50% to 300%.  At first I though with 50% increase they must be going 16bit to 24bit but that doesn't seem to be the case.  Here is what our AE found out today.

"tried a small music clip from the drive, and consolidating to the Nexis tripled its size! 9.4MB to 33.6MB.
However, I tried consolidating the same clip to a local drive, and the size did not increase. So it looks like consolidating to the Nexis is increasing the size."

They are upgrading this Nexis over the weekend as it's very old software as it was one of the first Nexis units made.  Perhaps that will help with this issue.

Anybody seen this kind of behavior?


John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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