I personally believe that Avid is a better tool for editing/storytelling (I've been using it for 20 years) but WTF Avid why don't you make a portable/transferable workflow as easy as they do? It's 2016 now, laptops are powerful and people aren't glued to a single location from start to finish on a project. I hope somehow, this post is helpful to someone else.Īlso, I find my employers (who don't do the editing themselves) pushing me more and more towards Adobe Premiere for the sheer fact that, for some reason, they easily link to and play pretty much every source file withough hassle. None of the source files (online or offline) were over 5 or so minutes in length and the online stuff played fine, so I assumed it was an Avid 'linking' issue and not codec relatd.Īnyhow, finally, and with no expectation of success, I downloded and installed the latest 'Canon XF Plugin 64', again did a 'Link to Media.' and voila!. I tried every way possible to re-connect the offline AMA masterclips to source files on my portable drive with no luck (I had earlier created and edited with a bunch of 'grouped' clips so I really wanted this to work).

For some reason, with this C300 footage, only around half of the source footage accepted the new file path on the portable drive and the offline footage still showed the pathway to my client's office drive. I often begin a project at their office, copy the source files and project to a portable drive and then finish up and upload it to the TV stations from home. I freelance and I have MC on my home system and I have clients who have MC on their systems at their office.

Also, at one point in time, there were ALL linked. I haden't suspected this because about half of the video source files from the same camera (Canon C300) actually relinked.

Hey for your help! It turns out that it was a codec plugin issue.

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