how to delete some sound files in Avid

[c3kings]

Dear All,

I am using Avid Xpress Pro V5.6.4

As you know, there are four tracks of sound from each clip shot by HVX200 with P2 card. With the file of picture, there are totally five files for each clip. In my situtation, most of the time, one of the sound tracks is just empty (one track for boom, two tracks for the internal stereo mike). How can I delete the empty sound track from Avid to save some HDD space?

In fact, because I use my HVX as sound recorder, I use it sometimes to record room tone and wild tracks, so in this case, how can I delete the picture file and the rest of the sound files from Avid?

Thank you very much.

King

 

[DC]

You could probably create sub-clips to at least make it more manageable. But then you wouldn't really save any HDD space. Maybe sub-clip then consolidate? Just a guess.

 

[bherr]

The audio tracks are all individual MXF files, so if you know which one you don't use, you can just delete them without using Avid. If track 4 is always the one that's unused, it'd be numbered the same as the video clip plus an 03 on the end, and the ones you want are 00, 01, and 02. Test this on something you won't mind losing first...Panasonic or Avid may have done something wacky and inverted the numbering. You can search for all files named *03.MXF and delete the lot IF YOU"RE SURE you don't want any of them. Avid may complain about media being offline if you do this after using the video clip in a sequence.

The audio files all have 8 characters in the name and the video files have 6.
A 187 MB video file has only a 3 MB track per audio channel, so you'd save a lot more room by deleting a single unwanted/unusable video track.

 

[MarkG]

With DV or HDV, you'd just use the option to only capture audio when capturing from tape, but I'm not sure whether there's any similar option for importing from the P2 cards.

I'm busy formatting my new hard disks so I can't run up Xpress Pro at the moment, but if you delete a clip, doesn't it ask you whether to delete the audio or video tracks? The help file shows the delete dialog box allowing you to select audio or video, but that's at 15:1 with seperate audio: if the MXF file contains both audio and video maybe that's not an option.