Wes, the XDCAM files are muxed video and audio. They are MXF wrapped
but not in the same flavor Avid uses for its MXF media. You can import,
consolidate or transcode to get plain vanilla Avid MXF files. I haven't
tried exporting as an AAF w/ linked media but I suspect it would not
work because I don't think MC supports export of XDCAM files unless
you're outputting to a XDCAM device. If you want to export AAF w/
media, I think you will need to transcode.

I'm new to this so I could be wrong on a few details. Good luck!
--J.B.

Wes Plate wrote:
>
> Thank you everyone for the AMA discussion a while back, let's do some
> more.
>
> So I AMA linked up to some media, but a little sequence, then went to
> export
> an AAF file with linked media. Media Composer gently informed me this
> was
> not possible and the export was cancelled.
>
> Ok, fine. So I select my master clip and Reveal File, find the video
> and
> audio MXF files and I copy them to an Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder and
> Media
> Composer dutifully rescans the media diredtory as you'd expect. Next I
> unmounted the AMA volume.
>
> But with the media now on my local storage shouldn't my sequence and
> master
> clip come back online? They won't. The Media Tool isn't showing me the
> clip either.
>
> --
> Wes Plate
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