Moving Older Projects to this Version (Windows Only)
CleanEncode is a utility that changes the character encoding method for a file name from MacRoman to ANSI or vice versa. If you are moving older projects to this version on Windows, you might need to use CleanEncode to convert the older MacRoman encoding to ANSI encoding.
CleanEncode is intended for customers on Windows systems that meet the following criteria:
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If you use special characters to name projects, bins, tapes, or other
Avid metadata. Specifically, this includes characters with a value
greater than 127 in the ASCII character set. Such characters are
common in Western European languages and include accented
characters (for example, Γ or Ω).
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If you plan to move projects from one of the following Avid editing
applications (Windows only) to the current version:
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Avid Media Composer or Film Composer v11.5 or earlier
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Avid Symphony releases v4.5 or earlier
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Avid Xpress v5.5 or earlier
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Avid NewsCutter v3.5 or earlier
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Avid Xpress DV 3.5 or earlier
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MediaManager Release 3.5 or earlier
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TransferManager Release 2.0.5 or earlier
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Complete instructions for using CleanEncode can be found in the CleanEncodeGuide.pdf file. This file is available in the CleanEncode folder in the Utilities folder.
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If you use CleanEncode to process the files in your OMFI MediaFiles
folder, delete the .pmr and .mdb database files after you run CleanEncode
and restart the Avid editing application. This ensures that the Avid
application recognizes the newly converted names.
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When you upgrade an Avid Unity MediaNetwork workgroup to
MediaNetwork v3.2, MediaNetwork automatically converts file names to
file names with characters in Unicode. If you plan to move Avid files from
the versions listed above onto an existing MediaNetwork v3.2 system, use
CleanEncode on the files before you move them onto the network.
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