Avid Behaving Badly #4: New Bins do not Appear in Project Window

This is just plain old terrible programming.

When creating a new bin, the bin window appears in avid, but the new bin itself does not appear in the project window.  If you close the new bin's window, it still won't appear, and effectively is lost to Avid.  What could possibly be going on?

Looking at the Finder level, I can see that the new bins were created without ".avb" at the end of their names.  If I manually add that extension, lo and behold the bins appear in the project window!

But what's causing these bins to be created sans extension?  Some crazy bug?  Some horrible computer virus?  Nope.  Just dumb fucking Avid.

This problem is the result of turning on the option in the General Settings to allow for filenames longer than 27 characters.  For some reason, Avid takes this to mean "stop properly writing bin names."  Turning that option off again fixes the problem.

Dumb.  Fucking.  Avid.

Seriously did no one testing this software turn on the option that allows you to make bins with longer filenames and then - I don't know - try to make a fucking bin???

Comments

  1. WillDecember 29, 2012 at 2:10 PM

    As negative/angry as you may be towards Avid, these blog posts with workflow problems/solutions are lifesavers for people trolling the internet for solutions. Thanks for keeping a record!

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  2. JuddJanuary 6, 2013 at 5:20 PM

    Thanks Will! My goal is to not only point out all of the egregious failings of the Avid editing suite, but also to be part of the solution and show how to work around the issues. Hopefully Avid will take note and fix some of these errors, netting us all an easier job and a more creative editing experience.

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