Avid Liquid to: FCP 6.0.3

I'm trying to make some fixes on an hour-long show a guy cut on his Avid Liquid (PC). I was able to export an EDL from Liquid on his machine, and brought his external hard drive over to my FCP (dual core Intel iMac), but of course there are problems.

The main problems are:

The EDL I imported into my FCP seems to have weird clip names that don't match any of his media names. They all have "import@" in front of the clip name.

His drives (500 gb WD USB 2.0 "My Books" are also formatted for PC - my iMac seems to read them all right, but will they still be a problem? (I'm trying not to freak out over the cheap drives...)

Also, it seems that a lot of his media actually got digitzed to another of his drives (hopefully not his main) - but he doesn't know how to look for the media, let alone move them - and I'm not a PC user -...

Clues?

Yeah...make the fixes on his Avid Liquid. Or rent one. The time/effort/money you invest in trying to port this over to Avid might not make it worth the effort. You will not be able to read the media without third party options. If they exist. Not sure how Liquid does things...different than Media Composer.


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And make sure you backup his media right away. Twice. Western Digital MyBooks are time bombs.


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I'm trying not to freak out over the cheap drives...

I would be freaking out. I would get that media off there ASAP. Those drives are garbage.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

grafixjoe Wrote:
> I would be freaking out. I would get that media
> off there ASAP. Those drives are garbage.

I definitively can confirm that.

Andreas

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Western Digital MyBook -- great doorstops -lousy video drives.

I don't even think they will hold a door open.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.