This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Tapeless Reality Check

Friday, March 30, 2012

RE: [Avid-L2] Tapeless Reality Check - clip names "00000".

Changing the clips names will not affect the AMA. It's the tape number and TC that allow it to relink. It would be insane not to be able to name your clips what they are. Presumably they AMA in, transcode to offline resolution, edit, then relink the sequence to the full res media? Just make sure when you transcode to offline that the resultant clips get a unique tape number (per card/disc etc) then add that tape number to the AMA bin you want to relink to. This will work, we do it a lot.

Andi

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: robertsalsbury@me.com
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:25:59 +0000
Subject: [Avid-L2] Tapeless Reality Check - clip names "00000".

So…

This largish shop I just started working at shot this series on the Sony FS-100. Apparently this is only reason I get to work on MC 6.

They've told me that the import process - AMA style - doesn't allow them to rename the clips, and because we're doing an online / offline process, I can't rename the clips or the links to the original media will break.

But I've got 10 interviews, and the clip names for them are all the same. So whether it's Mr. Big Shot or Mother of Crime Victim speaking, my timeline just says "00000", "00001", etc. This is crazy to me; somehow we've lost something that's been in NLEs pretty much since day 1. That broll shot covering the cut? "00000".

So my first question is this: does it really have to be this way? Is there not some step they just skipped where they get a chance to rationalize the file names between camera card and hard drive?

And the second question is more practical; is there anything I can do to make my edit less hair-pully-outey? I saw that now I've got the option to display comments in the timeline, but that seems to line up with the comments you add via the record monitor which were intended to send a note to the online editor in the EDL, not the comments field which you get in the script bin view (I think that's what it's called). Any ideas? At this point I've just turned the text off and turned the frame view on and I'm pretending I'm sitting at a Steenbeck.

Thanks very much, gang.

Robert Salsbury

reel: http://vimeo.com/channels/robertsalsburydocs

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