AVID - Canon – XF Utility and AVID Project workflow

Make folders on your Backup Drive that are organized by "Day" and "Number of Cards" that are to be backed up

YOU NEED TO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CF CARD SO YOU CAN USE THIS CARD AGAIN FOR OTHER PROJECTS AFTER YOU REFORMAT IT.

Load card to be backed up in to CF Card reader.

This will only work with a CF card!! Won't work with a folder backup.

Card mounts on desktop

Card Structure should be

>CANNON XF

>CONTENTS

>CLIPS001

See frame grab to the Right

Make sure the card has this structure

Launch Canon XF Utility

Go to >Canon XF Utility>
Preferences

Choose to user Folder A Only

Click "Browse"





Navigate to the hard drive and folder to set the backup of the card data.

Click OK

Select the CANON XF CARD

Click the Backup button

Click "Yes"

Will show a status bar of the copying process.

Clips backed up successfully YAY!!

click OK

When finished with backup Quit XF Utility

You will end up with a folder named with the date and some other numbers in the title

Example shown here.

Do this for all the CF cards you want to use for editing.

When finished VERY IMPORTANT EJECT THE CARD before you open AVID

Right click on the CANNON XF card and choose Eject "CANNON XF"

Next Load Files into a new AVID project.

Launch Media Composer

The Initial Project Screen will open. Here is where you choose where you create and save new projects. Click on the "Folder" to select where to save your new projects also how to navigate to already existing projects.

Navigate to the hard drive and folder that you want AVID to access and save new projects

You can look at the path where AVID will be accessing projects once you select the folder

Now click on the "New Project" button

The New Project Dialog will come up. Select the project parameters

• Choose the Project Name
• The Format (Usually will be 1080p 23.98 for school projects)
• Raster Dimensions 1920 x 1080
• Color Space YCbCr
• Stereoscopic Off
  Click OK to create the project

Select the newly created project and Click OK at the Select Project Screen

When the project opens the next step will be to link to the CANON raw files that were backed up in their native file structure.

You will need to open the Source Browser if it isn't open already. In the Menu Bar>Go To >Tools>Source Browser

In the Source Browser window go to the "Explore" tab and navigate to your storage drive the

Card Backup is located. Click on it to open the folder and then select the folder that contains the files.

When you select the folder and or folders that contains video media the "Link" button in the lower right hand corner will become selectable.

Also make sure that "Link" is selected in the Lower Left corner. Don't select "Import."

You can choose to create a "New Bin" or select an already open bin in your project. It's fine to create a New Bin.

Then select the "Link" button in the lower right hand corner to link the selected files.

Continue this process until you have all the cards that you shot content on to loaded into AVID

This is what a AMA linked Master Clip looks like. Notice the chain link on the master clip icon?

Next select all the clips that you just linked to via AMA by highlighting them in the bin

Go to Clip>
Consolidate/Transcode

Choose Consolidate







Uncheck Skip native media files already on the target drive



Choose the hard drive to save the files to and then click "Consolidate"

Choose Relink Master clips to media on target drive

The clips will consolidate to the AVID MediaFiles folders and will create a "Master Clip"

Use the newly made Master Clips without the "chain link"



Don't use the ".old" file

Move these files to a new bin and close the bin with the "Linked" clips.

Now you are ready to edit.