Thanks, all, for your prompt and helpful replies. I love the L2!
I'm going to skip the Modify Source step, as it sounds both unnecessary and perhaps even inadvisable. My limited tests — transcoding the AMA clips, editing with .new clips, then relinking to AMA originals — seem to have worked fine with all the formats, even Canon clips that all began with 0 timecode.
My "project" is actually advising a group of 20 student filmmakers on their Avid workflow. So I'd like to make the workflow as robust as possible, but to avoid unnecessary or confusing steps, because they're new to Avid.
On that front — I was going to advise students to create a custom "Original Name" column reflecting the names of the original AMA clips, in case it helps with relinking. Is this unnecessary? Outdated technique? I know that Avid preserves metadata with similar information automatically, but nothing that's exactly the clip name.
Would love your thoughts on whether to drop this step from the workflow document, which is already 6 pages long...
Cheers!
-Mike
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> I've run into a similar issue when dealing with FlipCam footage. The clips were true 30 and would not allow us to add a tape name because the project was 29.97. Tried using QT change to alter the speed but it didn't work and QT change prompted that the speed change was not recognized by some NLEs. Cinema Tools was not an option because it was not an I frame codec. Does anybody know of an app that will allow you to alter the .mov frame rate in a manner Avid will recognize. Does Clip Wrap do that? Sounds like you are having a similar issue because of the way DVCPro HD records 59.94 frames with pull down so even though there are only 23.976 unique frames Avid sees all 60 when it comes to adding a tape name and rejects it. Perhaps you could open a matching project 720/60 and modify the tape name in that then open that bin in your 23.98 project. Just a thought.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "michaeljshen76" <mikejshen@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm testing out an AMA workflow. I have test footage including P2/DVCProHD (720p 23.98), Sony AVC Intra (1080i 29.97), and Canon DSLR (1080p 23.98).
> >
> > My workflow is to link to AMA volume, transcode, edit, and relink to AMA originals to up-rez.
> >
> > Based on suggestions I've found here and elswhere, as a precaution, I'm trying to Modify Source on the AMA clips prior to transcoding, to help the Avid relink by giving the clips a tape name. Works fine on the Sony and Canon files. But the P/2 files give me this error:
> >
> > Exception:
> > >SMReturnTapeMobOffset: sourceMob editrate (60) does not match tc
> > >editrate (24).
> >
> > I also noticed that the metadata for these P/2 clips identify the Format as HD 720p/23.976, but the video as DVCProHD (720p/60).
> >
> > Search of the L2 and web reveal other reports of this problem, all years old, none with any answers that don't involve tape decks.
> >
> > Any ideas? I tested the workflow and everything relinked, even without Modifying Source; but I wonder if it will go as smoothly with more AMA volumes and a more complicated sequence. I'd like to head off any trouble at the pass.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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