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. 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.