Yep this sounds like the issue you are having.
Treat folder structure like you would a Avid bin name and path - keep it
short, simple and no unusual characters.
On 3/3/2012 12:09 PM, Mark Spano wrote:
> Dylan,
>
> One thing that you don't mention is checking the names in the complete path
> (volume name/disc name/folders). Any time I have issues like the one you're
> having where AMA linking seems to work but doesn't, the cause is invariably
> the folder names. They have some character or something that Avid doesn't
> like. When you move the structure to another place and it's able to link,
> it's because the naming in that path is free of weirdness.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jay Mahavier<jay_mahavier@earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> you can check the directory structure with Sony XDCAM Transfer and rebuild
>> the structure database files with Sony XDCAM EX Clip Browser. I use those
>> to check stuff when I've done finder level file management of EX footage.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 1:50 AM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
>>
>>> 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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