Re: MME not allowing round trip from Avid

Sorry, Robb, it's in Avid the relinking isn't happening properly. I'm not having any trouble with linking the Avid media in CatDV; it recognizes which audio MXF belongs with the video MXF and creates new clips ("metaclips," with a blue MXF folder icon) and treats it like any other Quicktime file that might be in a CatDV catalong.

MME is a standalone widget that runs separate from CatDV to which you can export an FCP XML and it converts it to an Avid AAF. (There's also a java plugin for CatDV that lets you skip a step and right-click "Send to MME.") The AAF you can drop into a bin and voila -- your CatDV clips are now Avid clips and should relink to the original Avid media. Most often, video does, you see the "MEDIA OFFLINE" replaced with video, you think the world is swell, then when you try to play it winges about the audio tracks not existing (not offline, or not linking; it insists they DON'T EXIST. But they do...).

Of course, FCP has it a lot easier back and forth because if it's Quicktime, everything is compliant. For those that are migrating from FCP to Avid, it might be worthwhile to get MME working in all cases (or even integrate it into CatDV).