[Avid-L2] Re: Re-Linking Question

 

If everyone did an import into their own projects those are all individual clips.  Just because it's an import of the same file Avid does not consider it the same clip in general.  It's why you batch import a sequence and don't just reimport the files from scratch.

I would assume that you took your online sequence from the producer and you batch imported based on that sequence.  That would generate imported media that has the same metadata as the producers sequence and that would allow him to relink to your online clips. 

Showing reference clips and deleting those clips doesn't do anything to the sequence.  If you delete them and then go to bin setting and turn off show ref clips and then turn it back on you will see the same reference clips reappear.

How did you create your online media?  I bet you batch imported from the producer's sequence.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Ben@ContactBen.com> wrote :

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Avid L-2

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Michael, Terry, and Jeff

Hey gang, 

No urgency on my end, I'm just trying to learn from others' tech problems – gotta have a hobby, right?! ;)

While the issue below was ultimately solved, I'm hoping that one or more of you Über-Brains may be able to shed some additional light on _why_ this particular technique worked.

Here's the scenario:

1. Multiple editors, and one Producer, are provided identical Source/Camera Clips (I'm guessing QT).

2. Each imports the Source/Camera Clips onto their own, separate, individual, unique Project on their personal external HD. **Note that they IMPORTED, so that new media was created and placed in the Avid MediaFiles folder.

3. Each editor emails their Sequence Bin to the Producer, and he tries to relink. No luck.

4. Producer attempts relinking, fiddling with the relink settings, telling me: "I tried to relink to any video format, relinking by different information (Timecode, Source Name, etc), and UNchecking the 'Relink only to media in the current project' but nothing worked for me."

5. Success came, he tells me, when "I went to Set Bin Display > Show Reference Clips then deleted all of those Master Clips (which were offline anyway) then Relinked the Sequence to my drive with the online versions of those same clips and it worked this time."

NOTE: he did *not* (AFAIK) do any of the following:

a. File Menu > Media > Load Media Databases.

b. File Menu > Media > Refresh Media Databases.

c. Trash the Media Databases.

QUESTION 1:

So, did deleting the Reference Master Clips force the Media Databases to update? Is that why that worked?

QUESTION 2 (only tangentially related):

True or False: In the back of my mind (waaaaay back!) I seem to recall that, when it comes to relinking, Sequences are less strict/more forgiving than Master Clips (since they're essentially just a collection of Subclips, and/or that they have different relinking rules than clips themselves in general).

Thanks all for playing!

Cheers,

Benjamin

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 Benjamin Hershleder

 ContactBen.com

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