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FPS_Fish
Inspiring
January 22, 2020
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AAF imports are very very wrong

  • January 22, 2020
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Avid Media composer:
•carefully created clean timelines with no effects or transitions
•removed/committed Multicam edits
*transcoded all picture and audio
*consolidated all picture & audio into a unique media folder
*exported AFF files with all checkboxes; separate AFF for audio, separate for video
 
Premiere Pro:
*Imported these AAFs into Premiere Pro.
*point PP to media; finds everything
*open timelines - the appear correct but the waveforms tell a different story
 
Video clips have diagonal lines demonstrating missing media for portions of files.
Audio clips are the right length and in the right place but all the sound files are out of sync(?)
and many files stop playing audio and then start again later - no rhyme or reason
 
Tried various exports settings in AMC.
No difference.
 
I usually feel okay nudge one or two file that did not import correctly.
But this import is totally useless.
 
What is going on here?
 
 
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Correct answer FPS_Fish

I think I have fixed the audio part of the problem...my Avid Media Composer Consolidate was set to convert to OP-Atom media. But when I forced a convert (all) to WAV...the audio seems to have come in perfectly. Phew.

 

Now to the picture problem.

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FPS_FishAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 22, 2020

I think I have fixed the audio part of the problem...my Avid Media Composer Consolidate was set to convert to OP-Atom media. But when I forced a convert (all) to WAV...the audio seems to have come in perfectly. Phew.

 

Now to the picture problem.

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pulck
Participating Frequently
March 31, 2021

Sorry to bump this thread over a year later @FPS_Fish! I'd like to know how you got on importing AAFs from Avid to Premiere. 

 

I'm an Avid editor that's been tasked with getting a my offline project into Premiere Pro for conform and online. I've tried exporting an AAF with linked video (i.e. not embedded) and embedded audio. It did not work.

 

The Premiere editor tells me that the audio needs to be MXF, but my source files are all MXF so I'm flummoxed.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

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