This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] ama plugin hell

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] ama plugin hell

Or a phone conversation to the manufacturers guy and say - in order to be useable by avid you need to put a copy of your plugin at

Avid.com/AMA/red-current

Or even a fixed path on the red site

Red.com/AMA/red-current

The foundry manages it with plugins for nuke. Apple manages it with codecs for quicktime.

People just got to talk to people this is not hard in 2013 unless people act like it is. It's one line in the AMA partners agreement and everyone is happy.

Mike

On 27 Oct, 2013, at 4:20 am, <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

Mike,

The problem is every time the manufacturer changes the web link it would be be a problem on the Avid side. They would have to update MC whenever that happened. With someone like RED, that could be a weekly process.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <avid-l2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

In an ideal world for me it would work like quicktime - try to AMA a file it has no plugin for and media composer goes and gets it. That's all the interaction with it I need or want.

Mike

On 27 Oct, 2013, at 12:26 am, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:

These are all excellent solutions. I agree that this is a pain point and every time I have to track these things down, it's a struggle. I tend to go around in circles before I get where I download what I need.

The link should be directly from the Avid site to the correct spot on the manufacturer's site OR I like the idea of the marketplace or auto-updating, though both of those things have drawbacks... I personally wouldn't think to go to the marketplace for AMA plugins.

Steve

On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Marianna_Montague@... wrote:

Owen
Gotcha - will pass this along to Rob D'Amico and see if there is anything that can be done. Terry - I like the Marketplace Idea - I will run that by the powers to be as well.

Marianna

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <owen@...> wrote:

Hi Marianna,
It's just when you click "download" the plugin should download.
Otherwise Don't label the links "download."
Label them "more information on where to download the plugin here"
thanks,

Owen

On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:24 PM, <marianna_montague@...> wrote:

Owen....
Avid doesn't host the AMA plug-in's - the 3rd parties do as they change regularly. Not sure what part of the below "doesn" work.
AMA Plug-in Guides
Canon XF
GFCAM
MXF
P2
QuickTime
RED
XDCAM/XDCAM EX
Downloads*
Arri ALEXA MXF/DNxHD AMA plug-in (download)
AVCHD AMA plug-in (download)
Canon XF 300 AMA plug-in (download)
Canon XF 305 AMA plug-in (download)
Ikegami GFCAM AMA plug-in (download)
MXF AMA plug-in (download)
Panasonic P2 AMA plug-in (download)
QuickTime AMA plug-in (installed with your software)
RED/RED EPIC AMA plug-in (download)
Sony HDCAM SR Lite AMA plug-in (download)
Sony XDCAM/XDCAM EX AMA plug-ins (download)
Sony F65RAW Plug-in for Avid v1.0 plug-in (download)
Hamburg Pro Media MPEG2 AMA plug-in (download)

* Please refer to the "AMA Plug-ins and Media Composer Version Compatibility" table for software requirements.
✝ Please note that AMA is a processor intensive application, and older platforms may not offer optimum performance.