Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AMA Relink

If you are rigourous, you can always get the drives to mount with the same drive letters on a Windows system - easier with Unity ISIS than the old Unity.

On 3 Sep 2011, at 15:46, Nigel Gourley wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is good although…. I have a feeling people are now using AMA for big
> long projects and this way isn't entirely practical for long projects. We
> are doing projects with 100+ bins and 6 weeks shoots
>
> We need to understand how MC knows where the AMA media used to be and how to
> look at that. So then we could remount drives using the same drive letter
> rather than relink everything. We have started to manually write down how
> the drives were mounted.. Although we don't know how to do this between MAC
> and PC.
>
> Also to understand performance implications would be good. We found for
> example that the amount of clips in a bin is hugely significant to
> performance. Much more so than with ordinary projects..
>
> More documentation please!
>
> N
>
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Marianna
> Sent: 01 September 2011 17:58
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AMA Relink
>
> There is a super good tip document that support did to aid in situations
> just like this.....
>
> Here is the KB note
> http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=385915
>
> Here is the pdf file
> http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/FAQ_Avid/amarelink.pdf
>
> M and M
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , Curtis
> Nichols <curtisnpcs@...> wrote:
> >
> > I made a mistake. I put some QT files into a folder on a Unity workspace,
> and did an AMA link to them. Then a couple of days later, the drive letter
> changed and Symphony doesn't know what to do to relink.
> >
> > I've copied the QT files to a local drive. I'd like to point each AMA
> master clip to a specific QT file on my local drive. The Relink dialog isn't
> doing the trick. How can I replace the source file of an AMA master clip?
> >
> >
> > Curtis Nichols
> > Señor Editor
> > PCS Production Co.
> > Irving, Tx.
> > ------------------
> >
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> >
>
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>

With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
+44 7973 543 660

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