Re: getting final cut material into AVID

Molly, , if you do a straight import, AVID should write your new media in MXF format. Not sure why that isn't working. I'm assuming your on a PC judging by Michael's comment. If you have access to a MAC, I'd do as Michael says and have your friend convert the HDV files to DnXHD. You or he can do this with MPEG Streamclip. Its a free and handy little conversion tool that re-wraps media into different codec containers. Or he could use Compressor or some other tool to do the same thing. I would choose the latter because those are encoding programs meant to do just that.

Hope this helps.

OS 10.6.7, Mac Pro 2 x 3 ghz quad-core intel xenon, 4 gb ram and AJA IoHD