In general I too have found the skip mediafiles already on target drive to not function reliably, if at all. At times it has seemed to help to relink sequences to the target drive before doing a consolidate/transcode. Sequences might behave differently than individual clips like you are doing. After a stall you might try highlighting all the clips in the bin and relinking them to the target drive. It shouldn't effect the source clips links but it might link the already completed clips to the target drive and maybe Avid will better respect the skipping process of media already on the target drive. Just guessing but maybe worth a try?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "keld_von_eyben" wrote:
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> Thanks for the suggestions!
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> My experience is that Avid has no clue which clips have been transcoded already - so everything gets transcoded again if you do not sort things out yourself - "skip mediafiles already on the target drive" has no effect.
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> It was mentioned that clips could show up without endpoints in the bin. This would reflect what used to be the issue with pre-6.0 imports of AVCHD that Avid could not always calculate the correct duration and therefore created clips with media errors in the final few frames. This was solved by AMA linking in 6.0 onwards. If this error is still the culprit I don't know how to identify that in the bin before transcoding?
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> When the error occurs my normal workaround is to sort the bin, select all pairs of AMA/.new clips and move them to another bin. Then restart transcode of all contents in the original bin. (This has kept me awake for whole nights on several occasions....)
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> But the basic problem remains: that transcoding AVCHD does not work without flaws - I suspect either decoding errors or memory leaks is happening. This ought to be solved by Avid, right?
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> The secondary problem of un-sorted transcode is a bug in my mind. Transcode should happen in the order of the sorted bin.
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> Best,
> Keld
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb wrote:
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> > Need confirmation on the following statement:
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> > Just select all AMA clips and transcode. Avid knows which clips have
> > already been transcoded/consolidated.
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