I need some help with AVI and IDX files please.

Hello there,

I've just been given a hard drive with a load of media on it that I need to work with in FCP.

There's a folder with many .AVI clips, and each clip has an accompanying directory file with the extension .IDX

The format of the AVI files is DV, 720x576, 48kHz.

For the life of me, I can't get FCP to accept the media. Log and Transfer won't accept them, and if i bring in the AVI files in on their own using File>Import>Files... I get a message saying:

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Media Performance Warning

It is highly recommended that you either recapture the media or use the Media manager to create new copies of the files to improve their performance for multi-stream playback.
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I can click 'OK' for this message and the media will appear in the browser, but If I place one of these AVI files on a new conformed sequence, the audio needs rendering. (Sequence settings correspond to media settings)

I tried just changing the wrapper from AVI to MOV, thinking I could fool FCP into accepting them, but I get the same rejection.

I thought the audio and video signals might be muxed, so I tried MPEG Streamclip to sort that out, but even MPEG Streamclip doesn't accept the media, saying : File open error: Can't find video or audio tracks.

Could anybody advise me on how to get the most out of these media files please?

Thanks in advance.

James.

Message was edited by: James M.

Message was edited by: James M.