Re: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX AMA Weirdness

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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> >
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