That's a very good point I will try that later but in some cases different frame rates for the XDCAM EX worked on some clips but not on others with the same frame rate. I did try clips individually and that sometimes allowed me to add a tape name to some of the XDCAM EX. I figured in those cases it was because of the batch modify that hit one bad clip and didn't do the others. It's only a few of the EX XDCAM clips that don't allow tape names to be added and the durations vary from 13 secs to almost 4 minutes for the clips that don't take tape names on the EX XDCAM side so there is inconsistency there. The DVCPro HD clips universally don't accept a tape name. That would fall in line with your differing frame rate idea and it would make some sense for the DF_NDF exception error as there must be some under the hood conversion for the DVCPro 60frame time code conversion to 30 frame code. I also found another interesting gotcha. I put the folder with the .movs I was ama'ing to on the same drive as the media. I then transcoded first to DNX 220 and then took those clips and transcoded them to DNX 45 making sure to click the audio box so the DNX 45 clips got audio. I did all these transcodes to the internal raids on my MacPro and then copied the DNX 45 media to the external drive for the offline edit media which has the folder of original .movs. Then when I tried to relink the DNX 45 clips to the external drive some of the clips would relink thru ama to the .movs. When I specified DNX 45 as the specific relink resolution all but one relinked to the transcoded DNX 45 media. The one that didn't still showed the resolution as DNX 45 but the icon was the ama style. Only after I deleted the original .mov's folder was I able to relink that clip to the transcoded non ama media. This happened to be one of the clips that did allow me to add a tape name. I notice a potential shortcoming to the new advance relink options. I wanted to relink by tape name and start time code only but the only choice is "Tape or Source File ID" or "Tape and Source File Name." I would think if I could select just "Tape" along with start time code I would be able to relink the clip to the DNX 45 vs. ama relinking issue but this is only speculation on my part.
I did note that the ama clips I added a tape name to didn't want to relink ama style until I remounted the volume in another bin and readded the tape name again. That's kind of a point for not addint a tape name which I know some people say they don't do any more. I'm always torn on this issue. No matter how many improvements to ama there still seem to be a lot more gotchas than the old standard ways of ingesting tape. I guess it's the best thing given all the crazy file formats some of which can only be ama'd. It's a little disappointing that even when I do all the intiial ama transcodes to DNX 220 and then transcode those to DNX45 I still find little bumps along that path which I thought were smooth sailing once you got it to Avid DNX media.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> Doubt you can have one tape multiple frame rates. Sort by res/frame rate,
> then give each group a different tape name.
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> On Monday, April 1, 2013, John Moore wrote:
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> > I have a 43 gigish folder with footage. I can ama link to the
> > volume/folder and the clips appear. Some are XDCAM EX 35Mbits (1080i/60),
> > some XDCAM EX 35Mbits (1080p/29.97, and some are DVCPro HD (1080i/60).
> > After ama linking the volume into a bin I highlighted all the clips and
> > modified the source to the bin name. Only some of the clips got the tape
> > name and the rest give an error message, "Exception: SM_DF_NDF_MISMATCH"
> > This happens when modifying multiple clips or single clips. None of the
> > DVCPro HD clips would take a source Tape Name some of the XDCAM EX 35Mbits
> > (1080i/60) wouldn't take a tape name but all the XDCAM EX 35Mbits
> > (1080p/29.97) did take a tape name and an HDV (1080i/60) took the tape
> > name. I've also tried this on my mac SNDX 6.5.3 and I still get the same
> > error plus a more errors when mounting the volume but if I click continue
> > all the clips show up and I can transcode them. Very weird. I thought
> > these formats were
> > pretty robust for ama. Perhaps I don't need the tape name but I always
> > try to err on the side of caution and add one when I can. Any thoughts?
> >
> > John Moore
> >
> > Barking Trout Productions
> >
> > Studio City, CA
> >
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