Automatic Duck Media Copy 3.0 - Manual (Page 2)

A couple of options
Imagine this scenario: You have your XML file from Final Cut Pro and you're ready to
run over to your colleague's place who will import the XML and media into After Effects.
You're excited and in a hurry. You plug in your firewire drive. You launch Media Copy,
you drag in the XML file and specify the firewire dive as the destination. Your media
copies then you eject the drive and travel a great distance to meet with your friend. How
bummed are you going to be when you realize you forgot to also copy the XML file onto
the drive? Well this option aims to prevent that. Enable Also copy above edit/
sequence files and the AAF, OMF or XML files that you use as your sources will also
be copied to the destination folder.
The second option tells Media Copy to organize your media files inside your destination
folder in the same way the files originally were on your system. For example, let's say a
Final Cut media file called "CU murder bunny.mov" was originally stored in "/Volumes/
RAID2/Final Cut Pro Documents/Capture Scratch/BunnyHaha" and you set Media
Copy's destination to be "/Volumes/G-Drive Mini". With this option turned off the media
file would be copied to the root of the G-Drive Mini drive, as would every other media file
Media Copy copied. With this option turned on, the "CU murder bunny.mov" file would
be stored in "/Volumes/G-Drive mini/Final Cut Pro Documents/Capture Scratch/
BunnyHaha". Avid media files would be copied to "/Volumes/G-Drive mini/OMFI
MediaFiles" or "/Volumes/G-Drive mini/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1", you get the idea.
If you're copying the media associated with an Avid AAF or OMF file you might also
want the precompute render media referenced by the sequence as well. If you enable
this option Media Copy will add the render media files to the list of what is to be copied.
This option has no impact on XML files from Final Cut Pro.
Select your destination
Next choose the destination to where Media Copy is going to copy
the media files associated with the processed AAF, OMF or XML
file(s). Click the Choose... button and then navigate to the
destination folder or drag the destination folder into the destination
field from the Finder or Windows Explorer.
You should quit your Avid editing application during the copy if you choose the root of a
drive and you turn on Preserve source media paths. Otherwise the Avid may constantly
notice the changes to the media folder and may frequently run a scan on the directories.
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