From avid to dvdsp

Hi,
I do the authoring a lot of dvds for a company in Holland. They work with avid dv and I work with dvdsp4.
What is in your opinion the best workflow?
Now I work with quicktime references but maybe there is a better way.
Often I find myslef making the qtref again because the first time there were renderfiles left behind on the localdrive of the avids (not all th media was consolidated etc etc)
Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: tames.org

The latest version of MXF4QT Import supports Avid MXF files so you can just drag them to DVD SP.

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