As far as I understand it, with AMA media, Avid generates a Unique Media
ID based on various media properties. This UMID follows the transcoded
media.
On 12/7/2013 9:41 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
> I'm more familiar with ama'ing and transcoding to offline resolution and using the .new clips that are created during the transcode. The difference here is they chuck the .new clips and relink the original ama clips to the transcoded media. I am curious how the original ama linked clips know to relink to the transcoded clip media without a tape name or Kn number to link with. We are running V6 so the other options for relink with file names etc.... aren't there.
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> Part of me thinks that the hybrid status of ama clips being somewhere between a tape based scenario and a file import there is a unc path like piece of metadata that is allowing the clips to relink to the transcoded media. This seems to work with or without the addition of a tape name before transcode although the AE says if you add a tape name everything has to be manually over cut later. I've not had a chance to test this.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb <namyrb@...> wrote:
>> I believe this has always been the standard workflow. Or at least
>> since MC5.0 (I haven't been in the game that for very long). It definitely
>> works well as long as there aren't any bugs with the AMA plugins. We first
>> used it with avchd media on 6.0 and it was a complete
>> didn't-go-home-until-1pm-Saturday nightmare. Did it a little later using
>> xdcam media and it was extremely quick and easy.
>>
>> But it's only easy if you know what you're doing. They need to rearrange
>> the GUI somehow to make the process more streamlined and seem less like
>> it's some kind of workaround... Or seem less like it's some kind of
>> "secret."
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>> On Friday, December 6, 2013, John Moore wrote:
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>>>
>>> To add a tape name when ama transcoding for offline or not? That is the
>>> question. Some on the list no longer add tape names and some do out of
>>> habit. I've been told about a new to me way to deal with ama that seems to
>>> work solidly for the two AEs I heard it from. The process is:
>>> 1: AMA link to media, in my current project it is Cannon but I'm not sure
>>> which camera.
>>> 2: No addition of Tape Name and transcode to offline SD media.
>>> 3: Take the transcoded clips with the .new extensions and delete them.
>>> 4: Unmount the ama source volume(s)
>>> 5: Take the original ama'd clips in the original bin and relink them to
>>> the newly transcoded media
>>> 6: Edit offline using these clips
>>> 7: Come online remount the original source files mounting the clips to a
>>> new bin, I'm told not relinking the original bins, and voila the sequence
>>> comes online.
>>>
>>> I'm told this works well. I don't understand what Avid uses for relinking
>>> the original ama clips to the newly transcoded media which doesn't have a
>>> tape name. We are on V6 so all the additional relinking choices aren't
>>> available only tape and time code or Key Code numbers. So how does Avid no
>>> to relink to the new transcodes? Then in online what metadata is avid
>>> using to relink the sequence to what are brand new ama'd bins of the
>>> original source clips? I'm told it works I just want to know more about
>>> what's going on under the hood in this approach. Anybody got experience
>>> with this?
>>>
>>> John Moore
>>> Barking Trout Productions
>>> Studio City, CA
>>> bigfish@...
>>>
>>>
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