[Avid-L2] AMA relink conundrum

Thought I would share with you a problem we had with next week's show and the solution we came up with.

Shot w/EX1. Clips transferred to drive and organized into recommended 1 card = 1 folder structure. AMA linked the first 85% of the footage and transcoded to 15-1 for offline. Last 15% of footage arrived late and was just worked with as AMA clips.

1 week before on-line a drive w/all original source clips and offline sequence was sent to us for test. Opened in Symphony and AMA linked perfectly to original files.

This weekend the final sequence arrived with the media drive, but this time only 15% of the media shows up. It appears that only the material that was not transcoded is linking. Many hours were spent trying various methods before we sorted it out. Eventual solution found was to assign tape names via clip modification first to the transcoded clips and then to the corresponding AMA source clips. Voila, we have relink. This has to be done on a bin by bin/folder by folder basis, so it is quite time consuming. Of course this project has "only" 35 bins and is 11 minutes long. You can imagine how problematic it would be for a much larger project. Would be a very good feature to have the Avid be able to "assign tape name by folder name" automatically. Would save a lot of keystrokes and mouse clicks.

Drilling down a bit, it appears that, between our successful test one week ago and our problems this week tape names were applied to all clips in the program but not to the corresponding original clips. This "broke the link" that we had to re-establish.

Lesson learned is that if one is going to transcode, tape names should be assigned during original ingest to both the transcoded and original clips.

tim

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