u/GuyNamedLindsey

I just found “watchtower” which syncs your folder structure and I feel so dumb for not finding it sooner.

Received the working drive the old editor was using, So in the folder structure I can see there was some sort of organization with regions, interviews, B-roll, etc.
But the media files are all in (Avid media files > MXF > "Folder 1", Folder2")

Importing the two folders shows me all the footage, but trying to wrap my head around what is what. I shot 1 of the many locations on this project and can see my old files, but I for sure delivered .mp4 files and I can see those individual files are now broken into 3s. (.mxf video, L + R channel audio) Some files are broken into 6 (4 channels of audio and two matching video files)

Is what I need an aaf export of their project, will that get everything back into some kind of organization? I've not had the pleasure of taking over an avid project before. I was reading about people having to take the aaf into resolve, then export an xml from there? I do have Resolve Studio on my machine if needed.

Any ideas or insight would be helpful. I'm meeting with original assistant editor later today, just want to know what I should ask for or how to be most efficient here. Thank you!

We’ve lost ourselves.