Hi all,
Long time reader first time writer here. Ugh, did I just write that?
I was working on a show on 6.0.4 software, and bringing home the projects and working on individual bins of dailies on my home system on 7.0.2.
Just this past Friday, I was working on my cut at work, on a Mac Pro system, with the dailies on Unity, connected through Fibre Manager, when my locators, or markers, as they're called now, began to disappear from my dailies clips.
When I would match back from my sequence, it would call up the correct dailies clip, but all of my markers were gone!
The markers had been placed there previously by an assistant on the original dailies clips. The show is shot in long continuous clips that emcompass several takes, so we rely on those markers--as well as Scripting--to track all the new takes and restarts.
I had worked on 3 previous episodes with this workflow with no problems--cutting some scenes at home, some at work, so it was a surprise.
Of course, my first suspicion was some kind of compatibility issue between 7.0.2 and 6.0.4.
I went home and checked and I did notice that the markers options in the Composer settings on 7.0.2 are more complicated - could this be causing this problem when i bring the bins back into 6.0.4?
We trashed user settings, created new bins, new projects, cut the sequence into a new sequence, trashed the MCState, zapped the PRAM, and even reinstalled the 6.0.4 software at work. And it still kept happening.
I have another theory that's not software related that I should probably put in another post, but I was also mapping back to original audio clips in these sequences, which may have made the Avid load an older set of bin data, without the locators?
I'm not 100% familiar with our dailies process, so I'm not sure how likely that is.
When I left, in a last-ditch effort, I rebuilt a sequence without the original audio clips and it seemed to be working. The locators weren't disappearing as I made changes and used the Match Back function. But there was nothing scientific about my process, just a suspiscion...
Any thoughts? LMK, and thanks.
Oh and my home system is PC based Intel Quad Core i7 3.5 Ghz, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA K2000 Video Card, local drives on Firewire.