Re: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX AMA Weirdness

Good thinking on the volume label. It wasn't especially odd, but didn't try
changing it.

The card folder structure was definitely intact and AMA plugin loaded, btw.
On Mar 4, 2012 6:22 AM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:

> **
>
>
> 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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> >>>
> >>>
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