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Friday, August 26, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Avid MC BATCH IMPORTing multiple files after they have been moved: SET FILE LOCATION...

Touche. I recognize the distinction between link and import, and the advantages of each. By labeling the other apps as "smarter," what I mean is this: You open an archived project in After Effects and you have "offline media." For the missing footage, the drive letter has changed, but the folder structure and file names remain the same. When you re-link a single piece of missing footage, the software automatically detects and re-links the other missing files, even if they are outside of the folder of the first file you re-linked.

Given the same situation in MC, when you batch re-import the media, by setting the file location of one clip, Avid only looks within that folder to find any additional media. So you may not have to set the location of every single file in the batch, but at least once per folder.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:

You know that "other apps" you're referring to don't actually import. They all link. And in linking, in MC just like the "other apps", you can relink all in one go. Import in MC is a special case. You are essentially doing a transcode every time and making new media. Batch import is an overwrite of that media - this is most likely why you can't do them more than one at a time.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:08 AM, OklaRoman oklaroman@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I can reproduce this as well. The re-import function doesn't seem to be as smart as the Adobe apps; it only appears to search within the same folder on the OS level. That being the case, a workaround would be to put all the images you want to re-import into the same folder on your OS. Desireable? No. But it works.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:06 PM, film35hd@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

This is usually not a big issue for one or a few files, but when you have 100, 500 or 1000 images, it become a major headache ...

We keep running into a problem when trying to batch re-import files that have been moved to a different location. You have the "set file location…" option, but even when I've selected all the files that need to be located and point to where the first one is, Avid only updates the location of the first file in the list. As I understand it, the function should work like Premiere/FCP where once it sees the file path of the first one it should update the location of all remaining files as long as the file names have not changed. At first I though this was an issue tied to the fact that ISIS drives disable spotlight search indexing, but I did a test where I moved some images I wanted to batch re-import to my computer's desktop and the issue persisted.

If a glitch or not intended to do what you'd think it should, is there a workaround? Again, these are not for AMA/LINKed clips, but re-batch importing clips that have already been imported previously.

Thank you in advance, L2 colleagues!

-K Tyler

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Posted by: OklaRoman <oklaroman@gmail.com>

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