I'm sure this is not the issue you describe but in the old batch import window of earlier Avid versions before the term batch reimport was incorporated if you wanted to reimport several clips you had to highlight them all and then find the files. It would find the first one you found and any others that were in the same folder IIRC. Then it would pop back to the batch import window with proper paths for the ones it found and IIRC "?" for the ones it didn't you could then proceed to find the other files by repeating the process as many times as necessary to find all the different folders.
I found many times highlighting all the clips in the batch import window at once would hang or crash Avid so sometimes I would only highlight a few at a time and find their paths. Once found I would move on to another small group and rinse and repeat. When things were really wonky I would find a few and skip the rest and import the ones I had found. Repeating that process till fewer and fewer were left to find.
With that old process in mind when you now go into the new world of batch reimport are you highlighting all the clips you want to find at once? Or are you only highlighting or selecting the first file? I haven't spent any quality time with batch reimport because most all of my sequences have mixed frame rates or some other element that gives me the prompt that I can't batch reimport in a mixed frame rate sequence. That behavior is really annoying.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <film35hd@...> wrote :
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <film35hd@...> wrote :
Mark and Roger,
Thank you for your valuable time, chiming in.
This is for a Senior Editor that I work with, and even though a later post verified this major "bug," to benefit you and others, I wanted to take a moment to reply back to you both.
1. There are many times in our projects where AMA/Linking is not possible. Many editors avoid it like the plague because of sluggishness, and some other issues.
Further, we go back to Avid prior to the introduction of AMA: Avid Media Access. Those projects are in cold/deep storage on LTO tapes and with about 40 Avid seats, we bring them back at client requests.
2. Of course we know Avid excellent media management births new .MXF (or former OMFI) files in one place. However, in deep storage, many of those files are at times corrupted. But the original source file – often a .DPX sequence or .MOV with key/matte/alpha channel exists.
3. Think of this scenario. Your graphic artist has provided a lower third and named the files for 45 titles, with the stats of a sports figure or race car driver in the history of his career. You've imported it (not linked). Later, CGI department realizes his name was misspelled. They correct it, and they change the file name to reflect the correct spelling. But your timeline is done and locked and on its way to DaVinci Resolve color.
You want to "batch import" using the "SET FILE LOCATION" to force Avid to re-populate/link the timeline with the NEW, corrected media.
Or you bring back a project from 2001, and use the same video, and want to update only the bug logo in the corner, which changes 60 times in a 1 hour show due to a clock timer. Again, if SET FILE LOCATION worked correctly, you would not have to manually import 60 times.
I hope you can see how important this is – after all, as a Machine Language/Assembler coder myself, I know that computers do repetitive tasks really well, and it makes sense that our primo NLE of choice, the great "A," addresses this as soon as they can.
Cheers from Hollywood,
keoni tyler.
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