Avid tutorial: relinking media

[@jjbecause5741]

you're the goat. Amazing tutorial that doesn't try to rush through everything

[@filmprofmark]

Glad you liked it!

[@Ethiopiaye2023]

Hi there. Hoping you can help me. I made DaVinci proxies and used links to edit in Avid media composer. I wanted to online my edit using original footage but it's re linking to the proxy. Is there anything I can do?

[@filmprofmark]

Yep precisely that issue is covered in another tutorial, start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH3QaIqdpaerY7csi=OXsZ4TlggrUeSa02&t=956 - easiest short version is bring in your original footage to the Resolve project before importing the sequence,

[@pingopallo1]

Hi, thanks for your video, what should you do when you use the second method and only part of the clips are successfully relinked to the colored clips? I made the following steps: 1) I linked the camera originals in Avid and did my edit 2) Migrated the timeline to DaVinci by exporting AAF+Offline Reference for grading 3) Exported the graded clips individually from Resolve, also ticking the options "use unique name" and "add suffix" 4) Imported the colored clips into a specific bin in Avid 5) Selected the colored clips in the bin, right-clicked the sequence and relinked to selected clips in open bins using "Source Name, and Ignoring extension. Result: 7 out of 9 of the clips get successfully relinked, and 2 don't get relinked to the new files and remain linked to the transcoded files Avid generated. Is there a way I can manually relink them to the graded footage? thank you very much

[@filmprofmark]

Not 100% sure, I've never actually done this workflow (confused why you had the finished graded movie in Resolve and then are trying to bring the individual clips back to Avid). But I would suggest something to TRY is to temporarily offline the original Avid-generated transcoded files (just move the folder(s) with those files in them to a different location outside Avid MediaFiles --> MFX) and then try the relink and see if that works? I vaguely recall one time where I was relinking something and it didn't want to relink clips that already had associated media but then making it think the clip was offline did the trick. Hope that helps?

[@sebastianneville24]

Great video! thanks for the help. You may know this (a bit off topic): i edit a lot of footage from Sony cameras (mostly FS7 MK 2) always shooting same SLOG3 and when I view the corrected in Catalyst Browse looks amazing . When I apply the same LUT in Avid looks awful. This is because Avid is not reading the EI (Electronic Index) data from the camera card (I rate my EI in the camera at 500ISO instead of the 2000ISO base). /sometimes I set it to 1000ISO, but 90% (Unless it is too dark) I use EI to "push" the signal for better noise control,. Do you have an MLUT that can allow Avid to read the EI data from the card so I can import to Avid so every time I link and DNxHR LB my footage I can apply this LUT and enjoy same as in Catalyst Browse? as you say, i send my clients LB resolution until they are happy with the edit and if the LUT works can be embedded in all the clips and many times may be enough for that video (Avoid Davinci!) Thanks for any help on this!

[@filmprofmark]

I understand the issue (and have worked a lot with FS7 log footage - those were our intermediate class workhorses for several years) but don't have such a LUT, and off the top of my head don't know where to find one. This is one of those things where your desire/request makes perfect sense, but just is something I've never bothered with - in fact I don't know if I've ever used a LUT *in Avid*. My own somewhat unusual situation as a professor (rather than working with "clients" per se) is that everyone to whom I'm showing things or sending anything is either a film student or works in film, and is perfectly fine looking at log footage during the edit phase until we get to color grading, at which point I always end up in Resolve. But I'd imagine someone somewhere out there has one.... Also FWIW at this point I do most of my transcoding for Avid in Resolve, and just throw on a quick LUT while I'm in there, so again just haven't really dealt with it in Avid.

[@sebastianneville24]

@@filmprofmark Thanks for the response. I also heard I could make one (To correct the ISO differences) in Resolve and import it to Avid..but I can't find it online. Talking about Resolve, do you know of a way to do this (EI correction-able to read the Sony data) in Davinci? I usually adjust by eye-moving the dial in HDR Grade > Global > Exposure to the left about a point or so. Not great or accurate. My lighting/camera work suffers a lot if the calculated exposure in the set is not visible in Avid or Davinci. In other words, I only see the exact original planned exposure in Catalyst Browse. Regarding workflow, I may soon start by creating the Avid project, naming folders and bins. Quitting Avid. Linking (Importing) all clips with no particular order in Davinci, throwing a LUT or two, exporting DNxHR LB directly to Avid MediaFiles....importing .mndb to Avid with clips only, reorganizing them in Avid-edit all, go back to Davinci CC all-return to Avid for final edit and export. Is that a good plan? Thanks again

[@filmprofmark]

You should be able to create and export your own LUTs (then import into Avid or wherever you want), but as to the specific thing you're describing to read the Sony data I don't know of one. I always used the FS7 in cinema mode where the EI is locked to its native setting so never messed with this. Regardless, I don't think the EI setting is part of the file metadata that Avid can read (no idea if this is on the side of the metadata implementation, or Avid, though probably the latter since you said you have another program that CAN read it). Have you tried looking at the clip metadata in Resolve and seeing if you can deal with it there? I've never tried for log footage with all the data "baked in", but I know if you have RAW clips you can see what metadata was recorded with it and alter that (ISO, WB, etc.) in Resolve (I vaguely recall seeing you *can* do this in Avid but again haven't done much coloring in Avid so not a workflow with which I'm familiar). Re your workflow plan, yes I highly recommend doing Avid transcodes in Resolve - it's faster, gives better progress updates, and easy to throw on a LUT before transcoding. I have a detailed workflow tutorial on this, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH3QaIqdpaerY7c - but make sure to turn on the "assist using reel names" option first to avoid potential headaches in going back to Resolve, as explained in a follow-up tutorial I just posted: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZOcoKykobiGaK8

[@weichung0319]

EI should stand for "Exposure Index" on Sony cameras. And no matter what you set your EI to, your camera always record on its native ISO. If the native ISO is 2000 then it always records at ISO 2000 no matter what you set your EI on your camera. Therefore, setting the correct EI info in post is crucial, otherwise you might get a couple stops of over-exposed or under-exposed footage. If you recorded in RAW, you should be able to adjust the ISO in post in Resolve. Go to the Color page, there is a Camera RAW tool. Make sure you've selected the EI you set to when filming on set. Then you can export them as proxies for AVID MC later.

[@ashishsomkuwar4700]

Thank you very much. The source file method solved my issue. 🙏👍

[@filmprofmark]

@ashishsomkuwar4700 glad it worked for you

[@arvvee1832]

Thank you so much!! No way I would've figured that out by trial-and-errot!

[@filmprofmark]

Ha yeah it's not exactly intuitively obvious

[@DunoyerFilms]

dood!!!!! you saved my life!

[@dannyinfinity]

3:08 It’s didn’t show me that. It said relink and next to it it said managed media or linked media and I pressed linked media and said there is no linked media in this selection.

[@filmprofmark]

Looks like this is a change in the new version of Avid (the tutorial was recorded in Avid 2022.something) so I'll have to dig in a little deeper, but on a quick check the "managed media" brings up the same window and options as the one shown in the tutorial so try that?

[@richardNbacchus]

It worked thanks you so much!

[@filmprofmark]

Glad it helped!

[@gabrielafernandes3635]

please, I need link media .MXF help :/

[@filmprofmark]

That's pretty vague/broad, can you give more specifics of what the problem is?