Avid Behaving Badly #28: Avid 2023.12 Batch Import just refreshes the old Media Somehow and it's Fucking Stupid
Avid 2023.12 is the first moderately functional Avid since 2018, in my opinion. Titler+ is still hot flaming garbage, but the rest of the NLE mostly works. It only seems to crash when quitting the program, so, like, task failed successfully, I guess, and editing is pretty smooth. You can even import .mov files with transparency again! HOWEVER, there is one MAJOR caveat to this, and that's that the Batch Import functionality is sometimes completely off its fucking rocker. I'll walk you through what I consider to be a perfectly normal workflow: - I make a graphic. It's gorgeous. Goddamn I'm good at graphics. Holy shit this thing is the goddamn Platonic Ideal of what a graphic should be. - I import it into Avid. Since I'm on Avid 2023.12, and not, say, 2019-2023.AnythingElse, this works. - My producer sends me a note to change the graphic even though she hasn't even seen it yet. Fine. I move the old graphic out of today's renders folder, drag it into the garde