Changing Media creation OMF/MFX in Symphony
by Kim Huston
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Nov 4, 2009 at 3:02:49 am
I am in the process of moving a project onto a new system and onto a new drive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what has been my experience of getting the media to connect is to delete the two directory files and have Avid recreate them.
But my problem is that Avid is not recreating them. Even when I hide the current folders and import a file to try and force it to make new folders. It only makes a new OMFI folder, not an AvidMediaFiles folder.
BUT what I think might be the problem is that Avid Symphony (v 5.0.5) is set to create OMFs instead of MXF files, so the new media is going right into the OMFI folder instead of needing to create a new folder.
SO long story short (assuming I'm on the right path with this) is...
How, in this version, do I set my media creation to be MXF? In the Media tool it just asks me for resolution and drive, not mxf/omf.
Re: Changing Media creation OMF/MFX in Symphony by Kim Huston on Nov 4, 2009 at 4:43:31 am
Well if anyone comes upon this thread one day.
The solution is that Avid Symphony 5.0.5 does not support MXF.
From wikipedia:
"Symphony was introduced to the market in 1998. It was based on Avid's Meridien hardware, supporting SD only, and was available for the PC and Macintosh platforms. Its last release was 5.0.5 which supported Windows 2000 and Mac OS X v10.2.
The next major upgrade was Symphony Nitris in 2005, with a redesigned software and integration with the Nitris DNA hardware (PCI-X). It supported 8 bit and 10 bit SD and HD resolutions in both compressed and uncompressed forms, the MXF format and DNxHD codec, and ran only on Windows PC platforms."
