This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Help for audio files quarantined with CM_INVALID

Saturday, February 9, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Help for audio files quarantined with CM_INVALID_TRIM error

Or Blackmagic could just buy Avid and finally integrate new tools into the color corrector. :-0

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Grigorescu wrote:
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> Thanks for following up on this Michael. it should save others tons of time and grief.
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> --- On Sat, 2/9/13, Bogdan Grigorescu wrote:
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> From: Bogdan Grigorescu
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Help for audio files quarantined with CM_INVALID_TRIM error
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> Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 12:37 PM
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> --- On Sat, 2/9/13, Michael Brockington brocking@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Help for audio files quarantined with CM_INVALID_TRIM error
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> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
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> Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 12:34 PM
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> Project type 1080p/23.976 WITH film options (35mm 4 perf):
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> - import .wav files via AMA, and consolidate them to an empty MXF/1 folder
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> -check all audio conversion boxes to 48kHz/16 Bit and PCM (MXF)
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> Files consolidate succesfully, but Avid generates the following error before creating the .mdb database in the MXF folder, and crashes to the desktop after choosing 'continue':
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> When I restart Avid, I get the CM_INVALID_ERROR / Quarantine dialogue before even selecting a project.
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> If I select 'Ignore all' at the Quarantine prompt my consolidated audio stays online (so the newly consolidated masterclips will play inside Avid). If I choose 'Quarantine All', all the newly consolidated audio is moved to the Quarantine folder.
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> If I 'Ignore' rather than quarantining, any future rebuild of the database in that folder will generate the same error.
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> Same as described above, up until the crash after consolidating.
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> However, on restart, the databases can be successfully rebuilt without triggering quarantine or CM_INVALID_TRIM errors. If I switch to a project WITH film options, I can still rebuild the database in this MXF folder without error -- indicating the problem gets baked in during the consolidation, not during the rebuild.
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