All apologies if this is obvious & i'm just missing it! We've been transcoding footage in RedCine Pro to MXF files - is there a way to merge the AAF with the clips, like in MC? or is this strictly an MC process? We'd like to go straight to DS to edit with the MXF files, but want to preserve all the metadata. Thanks very much!
Proposed steps by the quality assurance team:
In Red Cine :- Export your medias using the settings Avid AAF & MXF.- Move your MXF files in your AvidMediaFile\MXF\1 folder.
In DS:- Open the AAF w\ Create Associated clips and Force Creation of external Tapes Source checked.
Your medias will be re-connected automatically.
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The mxf files are in the Avid MediaFile/MXF/1 folder - the AAF files have been placed in the DS project. I double-click the AAFs to open and ProTools launches! Is there something I'm missing - this is not working. Thanks! (P.S. - the files do connect in Media Composer v.6)
You are double-clicking the AAF from inside the DS application, correct?
If Pro Tools opens instead of the DS conform dialog, you have an incorrect Windows file association and fixing this can either be easy or painful... Please contact Avid Support.
Yes, this is correct, I'm double-clicking the AAFs after they have been put into the DS project.
I've rt-click'd the file (outside the DS app), then properties, and for some reason "Pro Tools" was the app in the "Opens With", so changing this to DS at least does not launch ProTools, but double-clicking the AAF file (inside DS) does nothing.
Someone did something because this does not happen magically...
But you cannot associate AAF or AFE for DS the way you did, it does not work this way.
Please refer to this knowledge base article:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/troubleshooting/Avid-DS-icon-associated-to-another-program
The article does not mention AAF but similar steps should help solve the problem.
Thanks Sylvain. The Windows file extension issue seems separate from what I was originally trying to get at. I was trying to bypass creating new AAFs in Media Composer by using the AAFs and ALE directly out of RedCine and do the merge in DS. But it seems the workflow is to merge the ALE and AAFs in Media Composer then create new AAFs in Media Composer which are brought into DS to reconnect to the media.
The ALE and AAF merge might indeed best happen in Media Composer but it still won't work if you are unable to open any MC AAF files in DS. That problem you must fix.
I updated the KB article to include this option and a few more.
Thanks very much! I am able to open AAF files generated from MC in DS - the RedCine-generated AAF files cannot be opened in DS (we're using Build 16 of RC, DS v.11.0.2, MC 6).
stella k: ... the RedCine-generated AAF files cannot be opened in DS ...
... the RedCine-generated AAF files cannot be opened in DS ...
I've check with engineering and this is not expected or normal, so can we have samples of these AAF files that refuse to load in DS?
Yes, we did several batches of transcodes, and I can send one from each (I'll send to your e-mail since this post won't allow aaf files to attach). Thanks!
The provided AAF file samples conform fine in Avid DS on my side, in case people reading this thread wanted to know. If there is a problem, it appears to be an isolated issue to this one DS and not a RedCine AAF export problem.
Also in case anyone wanted to know what happened ... we had both ProTools and DS on the same CPU, no partitioning on the drive. We de-installed ProTools, de-installed DS, re-installed DS and did NOT re-install ProTools. Now DS is happy:) w/AAFs. So we're reconsidering how to handleconfigure w/ ProTools.
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