Bouke,
Here are some issues I've seen. Using XDCAM discs AMA mounted to transcode to lo-res clips for offline, then remount via AMA, relink, and consolidate at high-res for finishing. Some clips relink to the wrong shots. Haven't found a rhyme or reason yet.
Second issue, from the camera all clips have the same name "C0001". After initial transcode to lo-res, they are renamed with the unique disk number. When they are later relinked to the high-res version, the unique clip name is overwritten by the original clip name. So every clip in the timeline is named "C0001". Kind of kills Symphony's relational color correction advantage. :-(
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "bouke" <bouke@...> wrote:
>
> I'm now working on a tool to copy / move AMA files from long time storage
> back to Isis (or whatever expensive storage)
> Client is using transcodes to offline resolution, and wants to relink
> sequences to the original AMA files, but only retrieve the ones actually
> used.
> Makes sense for them, as they have a huge amount of footage (and no, it
> ain't Mark R.)
>
> The pathname / filename is saved with the transcoded clips in most cases,
> otherwise it's a copy column to a custom column, and that makes for unique
> identifiers.
> So i'm curious what on earth could go wrong :-)
> (well, yes, beside the smiley, serious, as in my limited testing i could not
> get it to fail.)
>
> Bouke
>
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