AVID - Canon – 318 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.

Card mounts on desktop

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

Click the Backup button

Click "Yes"

Will show a status bar of the copying process.

When finished with backup Quit XF Utility

VERY IMPORTANT EJECT THE CARD

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

Next Load Files into a new AVID project.

Launch Media Composer

NOTE: DON'T OPEN AVID IF YOU HAVEN'T EJECTED THE COMPACT FLASH CARD

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.

Go to >File>Link to Media

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

Click Open and the files are

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.