0 Replies Latest reply: Oct 21, 2014 3:10 AM by Trevor_Asq RSS

    How to export a sequence as an AAF without media and then relink in Avid

    Trevor_Asq Community Member

      Just in case it helps anyone else sharing material Avid PPro....

       

      If I export a sequence as an AAF then it expects me to want to include the media, whereas I don't want to duplicate media.

       

      If I put the AAF in a bin - with a piece of media (I used black) - then it will export just the AAF without media.

       

      Importing this to Avid results in Media Offline - and I could not get normal relinking to find the media (is it possible?).

       

      However using this as a guide I found that I could get the media to relink, having imported the AAF to Avid (and ignored the warnings):

       

      1. AMA link to all the media that is in your Pr sequence in a fresh Avid bin (you'll need to know where that media is)

      2. Select all the clips in that bin

      3. Go to the offline sequence, right click and select relink

      4a. Select radio button that says 'Relink selected items to selected items in all open bins'

      4b. Under 'relink by' select 'start' and 'name', check 'ignore extension'

       

      It does require that you haven't renamed any of the clips in your premiere project - that the clip names match the file names.

      (In FCP7 there was an option to rename clips to match files OR rename files to match clips.)