Major headache dealing between two platforms
Hi,
I have a media mangement issue between MC and PP. I will reproduce this post on the Adobe forum, and hopefully between the two answers can figure this out.
It's a long one.
I cut on Avid and my filmmaking colleague cuts on PP, and neither of us is going to swap. So we need a way to exchange workflows.
On a previous project I linked to a load of media, created a timeline in MC, then exported to an aaf file, and my colleague had no issues bringing all into PP. Then, when he did some editing alterations and sent me his aaf file, this was the beginning of our issues. Originally, when linking in MC the link symbol shows up in the appropriate footage bin. But after bringing in the PP aaf file, new footage symbols were created and yet the symbol then showed an imported symbol (NOTE: the terminology between linking and importing is different for Avid than it is for other NLEs) of which, of course, there were none (no importations/transcodings were ever created, only links) and therefore the required media was offline. I tried pointing/relinking Avid to the original media, but it simply would not perform the operation.
I then checked in with the Avid forum, and they said something to the effect that PP has no issue linking to the right media anywhere, whereas Avid likes to place imports in a specific place, and this can cause headaches.
So now, on a new project, I needed to create proxies, and instead of doing this in Adobe Encoder, I did the transcoding in MC, so that Avid could place these newly-created files where it likes, and then I could collate all these, and with a new aaf file, hand over all to my colleague. But he now says that PP is saying something like "Illegal Files", and this may or may not have something to do with the fact that Avid creates a separate file each for video and audio. Also, PP does not seem to recognise the original file names (although I would have thought that the metadata within Avid, and therefore transferred to the aaf files, would match up with the original camera files when all is pulled into PP).
What to do? And if the solution involves brand new proxy creation, how on earth do I point all this to the timelines already created using the MC-created proxies/transcodings (and how this will eventually point back to the original footage?
Thank you,
DC
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