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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.

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

Card mounts on desktop

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Launch Canon XF Utility

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Go to >Canon XF Utility>
Preferences

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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

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Click the Backup button

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Click "Yes"

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Will show a status bar of the copying process.

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When finished with backup Quit XF Utility

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VERY IMPORTANT EJECT THE CARD

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

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Next Load Files into a new AVID project.

Launch Media Composer

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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.

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

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

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Now click on the "New Project" button

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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

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

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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.

Go to >File>Link to AMA Volume
AMA means "AVID Media Access"

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Navigate to the folder that your just backed up the CF card data to using Canon XF Utility

Click Open and the files are

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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

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Go to Clip>
Consolidate/Transcode

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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"

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Choose Relink Master clips to media on target drive

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

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



Don't use the ".old" file

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

Now you are ready to edit.

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