MXF file replace - Proxy for Finish file help

[KevinStanley]

I have project that I delivered to client in quarter debayer low res DNX HD for offline that I rendered quickly so client could start cutting. While he's cutting I'm rendering all the same material to DNX175 10bit 1080 full debayer. I noticed that redcine x makes new names for the MXF media and I'm wondering if I will have any issues when I give him the full res replacement files. Can you replace the proxy files with the full res 175 files (new versions of AAF, MXF, ALE, based on same original R3D media) and have the edit auto conform to the new finish files?

The files are the same names, folder structure is the same, the AAF files match by name, but the MXF files appear to be different, RCX is creating different names for them?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jörgen Persson]

I have project that I delivered to client in quarter debayer low res DNX HD for offline that I rendered quickly so client could start cutting. While he's cutting I'm rendering all the same material to DNX175 10bit 1080 full debayer. I noticed that redcine x makes new names for the MXF media and I'm wondering if I will have any issues when I give him the full res replacement files. Can you replace the proxy files with the full res 175 files (new versions of AAF, MXF, ALE, based on same original R3D media) and have the edit auto conform to the new finish files?

The files are the same names, folder structure is the same, the AAF files match by name, but the MXF files appear to be different, RCX is creating different names for them?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Avid doesn't relink to the filename. Instead it uses metadata inside the MXF files to establish a connection between a clip in the application and a media file on the drive.

For example, if you transcode to a different resolution in Avid you get new MXFs in the same folder with different names. Your client can just put the new files in the Avid MediaFiles folder and relink the sequence (or master clips) to the new DNxHD 175x media. In this case there's not really any need for the ALE or AAF.

 

[KevinStanley]

Thank you!

 

[Jason Diamond]

yes that is correct, it's the metadata thats tracked that is integral to the "conform" file swap concept.

 

[MichaelP]

Tape Name (aka file name) and timecode is what is used. A relink to KeyKode is also available, but not valid for this purpose.

Michael