This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Link to online footage

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Link to online footage

That sounds a little convoluted. If you can relink your sequence to the
new online-quality AMA files, then you can just transcode the relinked
sequence itself and you're done.

Cheers,
--Michael

On 13-04-16 7:05 AM, electropura212 wrote:
> I got this working, for anyone interested.
>
> When I got the online quality footage, I was able to relink the sequence to
> the new file (renamed to match the offline quality file).
>
> I then transcoded the new AMA master clip to DNX 175. Then relinked the
> sequence to the DNX media. I was not able to relink directly to the DNX
> media without relinking the sequence to the new file via AMA first.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, electropura212 wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your thoughts anyway.
>>
>> I'll post back if I figure anything out that works.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Michael Brockington wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry I can't be more help... I'm still on v.6.0.3, so I suppose it's
>>> possible there's a version issue.
>>>
>>> On 13-04-09 10:01 AM, electropura212 wrote:
>>>> Yeah. Using "relink to selected". Only bins open are the footage bin and
>>>> sequence bin. I've made this work before with files that had identical
>>>> duration and with tape.
>>>>
>>>> I made the relink as permissive as possible, as suggested.
>>>>
>>>> Starting to wonder if this is actually an issue with 6.5. Or is this
>>>> workflow just too weird?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> J
>>>>
>>>> PS: tried adding tape names and decomposing to fool it into thinking it
>>>> was a tape offline/online but that didn't link either.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Michael Brockington wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I typically use the 'relink to selected items in open bins' option. Is
>>>>> that what you're using?
>>>>>
>>>>> If so make sure you have your sequence in a bin, your new AMA clips
>>>>> highlighted in another bin (or multiple bins), and to be on the safe
>>>>> side I would close any unneeded bins to make sure nothing else is
>>>>> selected that you don't intend to be. Then select the sequence and
>>>>> relink via the 'selected items' method.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would make the relink as permissive as possible, so allow relinking
>>> to
>>>>> media from any project, on all available drives, don't match case when
>>>>> comparing filenames.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that still doesn't work, I know some other folks suggest assigning
>>>>> tapenames, and trying to relink based on that. I haven't tried that
>>>>> route myself...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> --Michael
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13-04-09 6:43 AM, electropura212 wrote:
>>>>>> Hey Michael,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure what I did wrong, but it still would not relink to the new
>>>>> media.
>>>>>> File names are identical. Timecode is identical. Only file duration is
>>>>>> different.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It may be trying to link using the file Start timecode, which is
>>>>>> different.
>>>>>> Not sure if the other options are helpful (TC 24, Aux 1, etc.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oddly, this is easy in FCP 7, despite its ugly media management.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmmmm....Maybe giving them Tape names and decomposing the original
>>>>>> sequence?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, April 7, 2013, electropura212 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That sounds perfect. I'll give it a go.
>>>>>>> Thanks Michael
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Michael Brockington wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If your clip lengths are different you won't be able to relink your
>>>>>>> masterclips, but you should be able to relink your edited sequence to
>>>>>>> the new masterclips (also brought in via AMA, presumably.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Filenames would need to be identical between proxy and full-rez
>>> clips.
>>>>>>> (Although I think 6.5 has options that allow for different suffixes
>>> on
>>>>>>> the filenames.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> --Michael
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 13-04-07 9:56 AM, electropura212 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Is it possible to edit with Proxy footage (h.264 transcoded via AMA
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> Avid
>>>>>>>> DNXHD) then link to online files (QuickTime DNXHD) when they become
>>>>>>>> available ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The one thing that seems to trip me up is that the online quality
>>>>>>>> files are
>>>>>>>> not precisely the same duration as the proxy footage. The timecodes
>>>>>>>> all match and all used footage is contained within both versions
>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>> files. There are just different length slates and black, etc. The
>>>>>> actual
>>>>>>>> program material is identical, with matching TC.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In my limited testing, I haven't been able to make it work in MC
>>>>>> 6.5. But
>>>>>>>> it's possible I am not understanding all the new parameters in the
>>>>>> relink
>>>>>>>> dialog.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The edits are not terribly complicated and I can get thorough it
>>>>>> fairly
>>>>>>>> easily using Replace Edit, but would rather av >>
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