Re: [Avid-L2] Consolidating Music Clips to Nexis increases their size 50% to 300%

That would be my guess. Very small files will be taking up a minimum of one chunk so they will have to be a minimum size but with larger files the difference should be less.


Pat Horridge

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From: Avid-L2@groups.io <Avid-L2@groups.io> On Behalf Of JBeck via Groups.Io
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Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Consolidating Music Clips to Nexis increases their size 50% to 300%

Chunk size?  --J.B.

John Moore wrote:
> We got audio mxf files from a music company along with  avid bins but
> when they consolidate the files to our nexis they file sizes of mxf
> audio files are increasing from 50% to 300%.  At first I though with
> 50% increase they must be going 16bit to 24bit but that doesn't seem
> to be the case.  Here is what our AE found out today.
>
> "tried a small music clip from the drive, and consolidating to the
> Nexis tripled its size! 9.4MB to 33.6MB.
> However, I tried consolidating the same clip to a local drive, and the
> size did not increase. So it looks like consolidating to the Nexis is
> increasing the size."
>
> They are upgrading this Nexis over the weekend as it's very old
> software as it was one of the first Nexis units made.  Perhaps that
> will help with this issue.
>
> Anybody seen this kind of behavior?
>
>
> John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA
> bigfish@pacbell.net
>





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