HELP! Transcoding and batch importing lost XDCAM files.
by Annu Lilja
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Aug 31, 2009 at 2:52:29 pm
Hi,
the Lacie raid drive broke which held all the material for my film, and I need to import/batch import all the material again. The technical advisor at the company where I am working says that I cannot batch import the material, because the material that I have been editing was transcoded from the original XDCAM files, and that the AVID project will not recognize the untranscoded files. He says that even if I transcode the files again, I cannot batch import those files because the NEW transcoded files will not be identical to the OLD transcoded files.
He said that I might be able to do it if I edit on Final Cut, since FCP might recognize the files based on length, but I'm not sure if there is a way to turn my existing AVID project into a FCP project.
If I cannot batch import the files, I will lose 5 weeks of work, plus I will need to sync the material again, there is 35 hours of it.
Re: HELP! Transcoding and batch importing lost XDCAM files. by Bouke Vahl on Sep 1, 2009 at 7:56:39 am
What exactly did you do on the transcoding?
If you have transcoded IN AVID and have imported the files file based (rather than digitizing), you CAN do a batch import.
(This is exactly what i am doing now on a large project with over a hundred disks)
Just select clips or sequence, select 'batch import'
If you see a disk label, you're golden.
There are other ways to make it happen as well, but for that i need some more information.
hth,
Bouke
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