Premiere >AAF> Avid: Failed (though reverse works ok)

Given a simple 3-minute dramatic scene with footage from BMCC (as DNxHD 185 of HD 1920×1080 at 25fps) and a Windows-7 system:

From Adobe Premiere CC (latest version) I exported AAF.  Then in AVid I imported that AAF.  Result: Bin created, containing what appeared to be (from brief glance) all relevant Media and Sequence objects (now in Avid’s representation), but the Media objects were offline/unlinked and various “cryptic” popup error messages appeared from Avid.

I had naively assumed that the Media objects would have been AMA-linked to the source footage, which by the way included DNxHD recorded by BlackMagic Cinema Camera.  However, not only were they not linked, but Avid’s Relink function failed to recognize them.

I had previously succeeded in exporting AAF from Avid to Adobe.

A forum post says Adobe can read Avid but not vice-versa – confirming my (limited) experience.  One can only guess at which company is at fault here, but one poster blames Adobe.  Regardless, I wasn’t impressed by Avid’s programmer-level “cryptic” error messages.

I tried Bin:[Select Clip > RightClick] but the [Relink to AMA File)s)] option was greyed-out.   So I tried the next-best (RightClick) option, namely [Import].  The Import process took significant time, because (as I later confirmed) it was doing a transcode (to DNxHD 120) rather than a re-wrap.  Surprising, given it was already DNxHD in the right format and better quality…  And this import didn’t replace the right-clicked clip, it just added the import to the bin as an additional clip.

Not an urgent project, so I give up for now…

WebSearch:

  • Google:[avid import aaf from adobe premiere]
    • http://community.avid.com/forums/p/107907/625283.aspx
      • 2012-04-05
        • Done lots and lots of AAF exports from various systems into Avid including automatic duck etc and mostly they work with various limitations. But Adobe has always been just about impossible.
        • Maybe with Wes on the team a future version will see that resolved and Adobe will have a proper post tool but for now it’s a lone ship.
          If you work Adobe then my advice is stay adobe.
      • 2013-07-14
        • From what I have heard there is a bug with Adobe PP CC , AE CC is said to work better

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