[Avid-L2] Re: Avid and P2

I also want to say "Thumbs up" to the AMA/Consolidate workflow.
I've just finished editing a feature film which was shot on XDCam, and
over a 100 hours of footage came into my edit suite. Everyday, the
assistant received the rushes from the camera assistant, copied them
to a backup hard drive - without touching the XDCam folder hierarchy.
The hard drives with the original XDCam footage were also duplicated
onto other hard drives, for added security. The assistant editor then
added the new dailies to the project. Each XDCam card was imported in
its own bin and each AMA clip was given a Tape Number, and then was
consolidated as DNxHD 36. The assistant would then synchronise the
DNxHD clips with the sound clips (8 tracks of audio, recorded on an
Aaton Cantar).
Editing went on for 5 months, and when it finished, it was time to go
back to the original files. We reactivated AMA, plugged in the hard
drives with the XDCam files, unmounted the Avid Media files hard
drives. It was then possible to do a relink of the final sequences (6
reels, 20 minutes each) to the original XDCam files. For some reason,
we sometimes had to reopen the bins that originally contained the
XDCam clips (maybe because they were moved to different folders at
some stage), but each time we did so, they automatically became yellow
again. Match Frame/Find Bin were the magic buttons in that case. Next
step was to do a TiFF export of each final reel, for grading and film
shoot.
We were all amazed by how everything went very smoothly. Out of 1327
shots, only one relinked to the wrong clip - though we found out later
that two cards shared the same name and had TC in common.
The only weird thing is that when we first tried to plug the XDCam
backup of the backup drives, not the ones which were used for the AMA
import in the first place, the AMA clips never found their AMA files,
eventhough the hard drives had exactly the same name. So obviously the
Avid doesn't simply track AMA files by their file path on the drive (/
DriveName/FolderName/FolderName/FolderName/etc/OriginalXDCamFile), but
it must use some unique ID that allows to identify a drive regardless
of its name. I'd be curious to know more about that.

Pierre

> Posted by: "haventwoncrap" cutandcover@gmail.com haventwoncrapWed
> Mar 31, 2010 12:55 pm (PDT)
>
> Thumbs way up for AMA>Consolidate workflow. I wouldn't think of
> using it any other way...

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