Re-Linking Clips in AVID

[scottrwn98]

Software: AvidXPress Pro 4.6 for Mac OSX.


To make this an easy example, When editing in Adobe Premiere, lets say you have a minute clip and its arranged 12345. And now you want to edit this clip in a different order, we will say 34125 or whatever.

When the single AVI is deleted, your edit is offline. Duh. But, you have backed up this clip on a CD-R and copied it BACK to its original location, Premiere acts like this clip was never deleted (your edit is back to 34125).

NOW, in AVID, its MEDIA OFFLINE. I have my MOV clip on my Desktop and I want to relink my clip in my sequence to the file on my desktop...

How can I do this without re-editing my MOV?

[ahhaa]

There are some excellent downloadable Flash tutorials available for AVID, they are at:
http://www.avid.com/freedv/tutorials/index.asp

If I understand your question... if you have a MOV, then you have exported the clip? Then it's already been coded/compressed, etc & won't necessarily match the settings of your other clips. But, have you tried just drag&dropping the original clip? Works for me!

[scottrwn98]

Here is the best way for me to explain this...

I put together a local show on our cable network. I rendered the INTRO (about 30 seconds) and its placed at the beginning of the show, BUT I've intercut it through the edits (eg. for commercial breaks, I only use half of it).

Some how the clip was deleted (I still HAVE the master clip in my bin, just MEDIA OFFLINE).

I have the intro saved in After Effects, which I would have to render out, but I want to import the intro back into AVID and relink the OFFLINE clip to match my re-render ... just so I don't have to spend several hours finding my in and out points.

Does that help a little? If this were premiere, I would have rendered my file from After Effects and just copied it to the hard disk where premiere thought the file was, and its like nothing ever happened.

[ahhaa]

You could ask here too:
http://www.avidaustralia.com.au/index.php?sectionID=1&catID=1
they aren't on holiday!:]

also, you might try Media Sift, if the full intro clip is still on your HD, it might find it:
http://www.senkou.com/

[scottrwn98]

Well the problem is that in AVID the MOV file is titled ABCDEFG12345.OMF and when I import the Same MOV file the OMF file is now different. It's a matter of telling AVID that the OFFLINE MEDIA in the sequence is a different OMF file.

I think the way I read was to select both clips and give them the same TAPE NAME and then highlight both files and click RELINK... but on my Mac, if I set the tape name for my recently imported MOV file, I get desktop. So I'm running out of ideas.

Does that make sense? It's hard to explain that haha.

[ahhaa]

I'm sure it'll turn out like tieing your shoe: hard to explain, easy to do. You may have to go to the 'horses mouth'... post a Q here at Avid:
http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/default.asp