I got a call from the assistant on a job I've been doing some freelance
consulting for, she was totally unable to get Media Composer 5.5 to AMA
link to a whole shoot's worth of XDCAM EX clips.
Over the phone I verified that the file structure seemed to be correct and
other basic things. No luck.
I went in this evening and tested a few things out - I was totally unable
to get the clips to link in Avid either. Even weirder was that I received
no error message as you usually do when linking fails. It also didn't pop
up the bin naming dialog.
We verified the files were fine by using the Sony XDCAM Browser. We upgrade
the AMA plugin to the latest version. We completely reinstalled the AMA
plugin. We disabled AMA then re-enabled it. We sucessfully AMA linked EX
clips from the same cameras on an earlier shoot.
I turned on all AMA logging in the console (AMA_SetLoggingLevel 0xff) and
there was absolutely nothing. We'd try "Link to AMA Volume" navigate the
the right place, and then nothing - we were back in Media Composer as if
nothing happened.
Eventually I tried copying a whole card from the drive it was on to another
drive. It worked fine.
I checked all the permissions on the drive, I verified I could read and
write files on that drive and in the EX folders (I deleted the TAKR folder
and XML files and had the XDCAM Broswer recreate them - no problems).
No idea what it going on but we're now moving 790GB of EX media from one
drive to another in the hope that it will just somehow work on that drive.
Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/
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