If you are in v5.5.x there is a Source Path column you can activate.
Previous versions only have Source File. As part of the workflow I
suggest with clients for AMA, it is up to the loader to create and fill
a new column that contains the source path.
On 9/3/2011 11:06 AM, Nigel Gourley wrote:
> Bizarrely we are now getting projects with more than 25 drives so we run out
> of drive letters... But yes you are correct, but it seems the only way to
> tell what the drive letter was is to manually write it down at the start, so
> if you aren't controlling the whole process there seems to be no way to work
> out what the drive letter was? Or is there?
>
> N
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Roger Shufflebottom
> Sent: 03 September 2011 15:56
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: 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.
>>> ------------------
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
> With best wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk
> +44 7973 543 660
>
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