Re: [Avid-L2] AMA Logger explained

May I add my voice to this request.
My earlier post about batch import/relinking problems relates directly
to this.

Thanks
Ash

On 10 Jun 2011, at 11:29 PM, Nigel Gourley wrote:

> Hi There
>
> Has anyone seen any documentation about how this works, real
> explanations of
> how the avid finds media and refinds it etc. We are using it a lot
> on big
> projects, maybe 100 hours of material per project and it's becoming
> a bit of
> a nightmare, and I'm not sure we fundamentally know how it works and
> I can't
> find any documentation about this.
>
> Things like were the source file came from and what happens if you
> mix PC
> and MAC because PC's have drive letters and MAC's don't.
>
> What does the logger do and how do we interpret it? Why do we need
> it and
> does it affect performance at all having many of them?
>
> I thought the logger had details of where clips were but I think
> that's not
> true.
>
> How do you stop endless scanning of drives without stopping AMA
> completely.
>
> Why are links lost and how to recover them, bearing in mind relink
> doesn't
> really do it! To relink we have to re AMA and then delete the new
> clips and
> then the Avid links to the originals. Except not in 5.5!
>
> We need proper grown up documentation!
>
> Thanks
>
> Nige
>
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