AVID EDITING NOTES
RELINKING & UNLINKING
RELINK
• Used to get rid of the Offline Media message or to force a clip to link to media on a particular drive. Below are some scenarios for relinking:
o Select the offline clips in your bin and choose Relink (from Clip or Bin Menu)
o To relink master clips, click in the right box and OK
o The system will only link if the media files have the same source (tape name) and identical start and end timecodes as the clips selected for relinking.
• If a sequence shows some frames as Media Offline, the entire sequence may be relinked.
o Select the sequence in the bin
o Deselect both check boxes in the Relink dialogue box and press OK
• A third scenario is to Relink to Selected. This lets us link sequences and subclips to media files associated with specific master clips. Say Version 3 of my sequence has be consolidated, but later I decide to return to Version 1 and version 1 shows Media Offline. Temporarily move version 1 into the same bin as the consolidated master clips and choose Relink to Selected. This will force your sequence to link to the selected master clips if possible. Duplicated your sequence first!
UNLINK
• When using Unlink, don’t carry out what’s described last if any of your clips have been edited into a sequence. Do it first.
• In the Clip or Bin menu & only revealed if Shift + Click are held down while accessing the menu
• If you log & digitize clips from a particular tape and later realize that the logged timecodes could be applied to clips from a different tape or an associated DAT, time can be saved by having to relog them.
o Simply select all the clips of interest and duplicate them and drag the clips into a bin or my choice and with Shift + Ctrl held down on the keyboard, choose Unlink. All links these clips had with any media are now broken and to all intents and purposes they have returned to the status of having just been logged but never digitized. (This means that the tape source and tracks can be modified and can be digitized as desired).
• Unlink is also good for removing unwanted tracks from a clip. For example, you captured video on just a narration. If you delete the video media is deleted, the video track will still exist in the clip and a Media Offline message will appear. Once a clip has been digitized, it is not possible to change the tracks (even if all media is offline), so to get rid of the video track and media do the following:
o Select the clip(s) in the bin and open the Media Tool
o Set the media display to show Master Clips from your project.
o Back in the bin with the selected clips, choose Select Media Relatives from the fast menu – your clip will be highlighted in the Media Tool.
o Click on the title bar of the Media Tool and press Delete
o Delete only the video media file(s). this leave you with clips that have an unwanted video track.
o Unlink these clips and modify the tracks (clip or bin menu) leaving just the audio tracks.
o Relink all the selected clips (use Relink Master Clips) and the audio media will come back online.
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