Thank you very much for the comprehensive presentation. I have been using it for a long time. Dear Avid. Please please please It would be timely to integrate everything that MDV can do into Media Composer so we can natively copy/move media files without an external application and without the anoying consolidate.new / relink process.
There is a Windows legacy version (around four years old) available to download. Doesn't have all the latest features, but will do basic copying, moving and deleting. Haven't tried it in Windows 11, but it works in WIn 10.
We tried it on a project in 2021 and ran into heaps of issues. We contacted Valentin who told us that as he doesn't use windows he just stopped working on it years ago and doesn't maintain it so no new features or support will be coming to it. Especially most of the features I showed here. Hence why I never mentioned it, but yeah it's there. Though you can do most of the same things with Avid's media tool.
So in the video I showed how to filter by project. This will show all media created and imported in a specific project. However if you have a bunch of media that was say transcoded in resolve (and so the project metadata will be different) you'll need to select that project as well. OR just throw all the bins into MDV and you'll get all the media in all those bins. Either way, you can definitely isolate the media for just one project.
@@theavidassistant When you say "throw the bins into MDV" what do you mean? If I have a bin with one sequence in it, can MDV select only the mxf files used in that bin/seq? This is very helpful because it would be a way to send someone all the mxfs without consolidating.
@@ovidiusnaso602exactly yes! That's exactly what I describe and demonstrate doing in the video with a bin. "Intersect entire database with bin(s)" option does exactly that and will isolate the media from just the selected bin(s).
I want to move huge selected data to a different drive, keeping the media database (mdb & pmr) intact, so that the media is connected and available in avid after they are moved to new location, can you help with the process, im using mimic and have to move selected data between servers.
So if you are copying all of the media files to another server then it should be no worries to just move the whole thing. Moving selected data to a new location is where I always use MDV. The only other way I reliably know to move selected avid MXF data is by dumping it onto a sequence in avid and exporting an AAF with "copy all media" selected.
Thank you
Wow, thank you so much
Thanks very much ! Like always very very interesting 👍
Thank you very much for the comprehensive presentation. I have been using it for a long time.
Dear Avid. Please please please It would be timely to integrate everything that MDV can do into Media Composer so we can natively copy/move media files without an external application and without the anoying consolidate.new / relink process.
There is a Windows legacy version (around four years old) available to download. Doesn't have all the latest features, but will do basic copying, moving and deleting. Haven't tried it in Windows 11, but it works in WIn 10.
We tried it on a project in 2021 and ran into heaps of issues. We contacted Valentin who told us that as he doesn't use windows he just stopped working on it years ago and doesn't maintain it so no new features or support will be coming to it. Especially most of the features I showed here.
Hence why I never mentioned it, but yeah it's there. Though you can do most of the same things with Avid's media tool.
This is amazing!
Thank you for the tip!!! Btw is there a chance to find all files in a mxf folder that belong to project. Both the sequences and the bins?
So in the video I showed how to filter by project. This will show all media created and imported in a specific project. However if you have a bunch of media that was say transcoded in resolve (and so the project metadata will be different) you'll need to select that project as well.
OR just throw all the bins into MDV and you'll get all the media in all those bins. Either way, you can definitely isolate the media for just one project.
@@theavidassistant When you say "throw the bins into MDV" what do you mean? If I have a bin with one sequence in it, can MDV select only the mxf files used in that bin/seq?
This is very helpful because it would be a way to send someone all the mxfs without consolidating.
@@ovidiusnaso602exactly yes! That's exactly what I describe and demonstrate doing in the video with a bin.
"Intersect entire database with bin(s)" option does exactly that and will isolate the media from just the selected bin(s).
@@theavidassistant oh gotcha.. the term "intersect" is confusing… now I understand!
So before we add beans we intersect with one ?
I want to move huge selected data to a different drive, keeping the media database (mdb & pmr) intact, so that the media is connected and available in avid after they are moved to new location, can you help with the process, im using mimic and have to move selected data between servers.
So if you are copying all of the media files to another server then it should be no worries to just move the whole thing.
Moving selected data to a new location is where I always use MDV. The only other way I reliably know to move selected avid MXF data is by dumping it onto a sequence in avid and exporting an AAF with "copy all media" selected.
@@theavidassistant Thank you