Thursday, February 11, 2010

[Avid-L2] Automatic Duck help?

I just received an .aaf file and a folder with .mxf and .aif media files in it from an FCP editor. He used AutoDuck to send his stuff to me.

I was able to import the .aaf file into a Bin and was happy to see all of the clips and the Sequence populate in the Bin. The media was offline, so dragged the .mxf/.aif files into my Unity partition. Avid proceeded to scan the workspace, but spit an error stating that the file "does not appear to be an MXF file", I click Ignore and it halts on the next one and so on. If I click Ignore All it appears to scan and the video is no longer showing Offline in the Timeline, but it won't play. I get "End of FIle Reached on '<filename>' The Record monitor shows DISK_EOF in the lower left corner. The audio remains Offline.

I've tried to review the demos available at automaticduck.com, but this client's corporate IT policy blocks the video, so I can't see for sure if I'm forgetting something simple or if I have a larger issue at hand.

This is my first time actually receiving a "Ducked" sequence from an FCP user, so could someone verify my process? I thought it was as simple as importing the .AAF Composition and copying the media files into the Avid MediaFiles folder, but maybe I'm missing something.

Thanks in advance.
-kenton

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