If your Panel Browser > Animated Panels Preference is set to "Preview the first frame", you will not be able to preview the clip succession in the same way as you can in Avid. It is important to note however that the overall duration of each of the "grouped" panels will be correct, so if there is any audio, it will remain in sync.
If the Animated Panels Preference is instead set to "Preview all frames", the full clip succession will be visible during playback, but the total number of panels in the Panel Browser may differ from your initial expectations.
RESOLUTION
If you would like to see the panel separations in the Panel Browser, rather than having the panels be "grouped" together, editors can put an "add edit" on the top clip, where the panel-to-panel separation is required. See example below:
FURTHER HELP
If it doesn't seem like the scenario described here fits your situation, and you keep having issues with panels missing or being out of place when coming back from Editorial, please open a Support Request and include the following information:
- Avid/Premiere and Flix versions used
- A screenshot of the settings used to export the files out of Avid/Premiere
- A screenshot of the Avid timeline in the portion that is giving problems, with clip names clearly visible
- A screenshot of the Flix Panel Browser showing that same portion of the sequence
For more information on how to open a support request, please refer to this article: Q100064: How to raise a support ticket
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SYMPTOMS
When publishing back from Editorial to Flix, some panels might appear to be missing. Looking at the panel durations, panels directly before/after the 'missing' panels have longer durations than expected.
CAUSE
The most likely scenario and explanation for this is that Flix reads the AAF from top track to bottom track. Panel separations are consequently driven by the top-most clips, resulting in a "grouping" of sorts.
For example, with a track like the one in the screenshot below, the expected separations in Flix are defined by the yellow boxes. Each of those will be a single ref panel in Flix, even though the picture in picture results in a different image at the end of each clip, independently from the specific track: