Brian Merlen
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It should be noted I am new to Avid entirely and a non epic owner, so please have some patience with my ignorance, I am a total newb on the NLE.
I made a new sequence/project, went to my bin, right clicked import and I got the following error message when trying to import "the file format of (file name) is not supported for import"
So then I decided "well I'll try it using AMA"
Right click, link to AMA, and it says "There were errors linking AMA files, see console for details".
The console says:
" p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
------ AMA Link To File(s) ------
Trying to open a RED file with the QuickTime AMA plug-in failed. [ Plugin Name = QuickTime Plug-In Avid Technology, Inc. Version = 1.2 ] does not support /Volumes/Seagate 500GB HD/r3d files/A001_C003_0929N5_001.R3D"
It should be noted that I am using a core 2 duo Mac, 8gbs ram, with my media and project file on an external and that the files I have are r3ds that no longer have the file structure of the mag intact. meaning I downloaded them from the Reducation class I took via Reds site and they are only R3d files without the file structure of the mag formatting in place (quicktime ref files like on the red one if i remember right, its been a while since May when i took the class? i dont have a mag or epic and cant remember what those little files are in the mag structure, but you know what i mean, the non .r3d stuff in the mag? or maybe i am thinking of the red one mag structure not sure about this entirely).
I am really not sure where exactly my trouble is coming from, whether I am missing a plug in, or my HDD's are too slow (that is what my guess is), or that my external drive is USB2 only so the port is too slow? I know my HDD's/USB 2 port could very well be the problem, simply too slow perhaps? I am going to try using a faster external with firewire and see if the error still happens, but any helpful advice would be appreciated! Like I said I am a total newb to Avid and I totally understand my system is barely passing the minimum specs. Its not like I am looking for real time performance here, I was just trying to play around with some footage and see how it performed on my ancient mac while dabbling on an NLE I am not entirely familiar with quite yet. The problem could also be the NLE needs the file structure of the mag in place and since I don't have that, its causing a problem? I am not really sure which is causing this though, definitively speaking and would highly appreciate any advice you can spare? Thanks in advance guys!
PS I understand I can use Redcine X Pro to convert to proxy files to edit in MC6, but I was attempting to check out how poorly my set up would run natively with r3d files being imported and cut in MC6...I am going to load the files in RedCine X Pro just to make sure they aren't corrupted, I am downloading the newest version now
I made a new sequence/project, went to my bin, right clicked import and I got the following error message when trying to import "the file format of (file name) is not supported for import"
So then I decided "well I'll try it using AMA"
Right click, link to AMA, and it says "There were errors linking AMA files, see console for details".
The console says:
" p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
------ AMA Link To File(s) ------
Trying to open a RED file with the QuickTime AMA plug-in failed. [ Plugin Name = QuickTime Plug-In Avid Technology, Inc. Version = 1.2 ] does not support /Volumes/Seagate 500GB HD/r3d files/A001_C003_0929N5_001.R3D"
It should be noted that I am using a core 2 duo Mac, 8gbs ram, with my media and project file on an external and that the files I have are r3ds that no longer have the file structure of the mag intact. meaning I downloaded them from the Reducation class I took via Reds site and they are only R3d files without the file structure of the mag formatting in place (quicktime ref files like on the red one if i remember right, its been a while since May when i took the class? i dont have a mag or epic and cant remember what those little files are in the mag structure, but you know what i mean, the non .r3d stuff in the mag? or maybe i am thinking of the red one mag structure not sure about this entirely).
I am really not sure where exactly my trouble is coming from, whether I am missing a plug in, or my HDD's are too slow (that is what my guess is), or that my external drive is USB2 only so the port is too slow? I know my HDD's/USB 2 port could very well be the problem, simply too slow perhaps? I am going to try using a faster external with firewire and see if the error still happens, but any helpful advice would be appreciated! Like I said I am a total newb to Avid and I totally understand my system is barely passing the minimum specs. Its not like I am looking for real time performance here, I was just trying to play around with some footage and see how it performed on my ancient mac while dabbling on an NLE I am not entirely familiar with quite yet. The problem could also be the NLE needs the file structure of the mag in place and since I don't have that, its causing a problem? I am not really sure which is causing this though, definitively speaking and would highly appreciate any advice you can spare? Thanks in advance guys!
PS I understand I can use Redcine X Pro to convert to proxy files to edit in MC6, but I was attempting to check out how poorly my set up would run natively with r3d files being imported and cut in MC6...I am going to load the files in RedCine X Pro just to make sure they aren't corrupted, I am downloading the newest version now
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lay - Exception: FATAL_ERROR, msg:Assertion failed: CMError_No_Error == cmErr, file:/Snapshots/relengsnow5_1319677901/coresw/ame/Projects/Mac/../../src/Consumers/Imports/AvchdVideoImpConsumer.cpp, line:1031