This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Initial Transcode: Dark, Re-transcode: Fine, Reimport: Dark

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Initial Transcode: Dark, Re-transcode: Fine, Reimport: Dark

It doesn't sound to me like you should have a problem.

Try these steps:

1. Take your Avid media offline. I generally do this by adding an 'X'
to the end of every "Avid MediaFiles" folder, (so changing the name of
the folder to "Avid MediaFilesX".) You might have 1 such folder per
hard drive. Taking it offline will prevent you from relinking to any
of your transcoded media. When you're done you can bring it all back
online by restoring the original folder name.
After doing this your test sequence should be full of offline media.

2. open all bins with AMA clips and select them all. They should all be
online.

3. select your test sequence and Relink to selected clips in all open bins.

If your sequence is now online then you've successfully relinked to your
AMA files. You can bring your Avid media back online (by restoring the
"Avid MediaFiles" folders to their proper names) and should then be
able to re-transcode your sequence to DNxHD115 or whatever resolution
you prefer.

Cheers,
--Michael

On 12-11-28 9:54 AM, Martin wrote:
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Michael Brockington <brocking@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > When you're done you should be able to relink your cut to your
> original
> > AMA files and transcode the final sequence again to DNxHD115. You
> could
> > test it now to make sure it will work for you. Since your transcodes
> are
> > now working fine, it shouldn't matter that the levels in the original
> > transcodes are stretched.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael
>
> I've been trying to run this relink/test and keep ending up linking to
> the initial, bad, transcode not the original AMA files. I just watched a
> tutorial on the workflow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgSF73Msxgc)
> that suggests I may have done something horribly wrong at the outset.
> After AMA linking and then transcoding I immediately started working
> with the newly transcoded .new clips. I did not take the AMA drive
> offline and then link the AMA master clips to the transcoded media and
> then cut with them. Have I lost all relationship between the transcoded
> media and the original?
> Martin
>
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