Friday, May 30, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] New Relinking Tip

 

Any time I've ever had AMA material go offline, I just link it again. Forget "Relink to AMA Media", as has already been discussed. Link again, and you're good. Occasionally I'll have to do a relink on my sequence, but most of the time I don't. Just link again, and everything's good to go. And since linking is usually pretty quick, I've never worried about this issue.


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Andi Meek kwikpasta@hotmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

The manual says to: > select the AMA files you wish to relink in the bin (shift+select multiple clips) > Right click and select Relink to AMA File(s) > Locate the folder where the files exist > click ok.

To me, this suggests that it should link to the whole folder and re-establish the links to the clips in the bin without creating new ones.  More useful than just re-AMAing the clips as any extra metadata you added to the unlinked AMA clips would be retained and not have to be entered again.  However, it definitely doesn't work like that.  To me this feature is broken.

Andi



To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 17:49:17 +0100

Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] New Relinking Tip

 

It will, sometimes (no idea why) relink to a whole folder after pointing to the first file. But AMA relink is flaky, as you say. Nobody has ever been able to explain how it is SUPPOSED to work! I'd say that if a folder has been moved or renamed or the original drive is missing, then we should be able to use this feature but it is often greyed out.

 With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom

On 30 May 2014, at 15:54, "Andi Meek kwikpasta@hotmail.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I've found "relink to AMA" to be pretty useless as a relink method.  I posted on the forums about it but no one got back to me.  Long story short, it won't let you relink a whole folder of clips at once but only one file at a time, having to select the clip you want, click ok, then select the next clip you want, click ok etc and work your way through the whole folder in this manner.  Total waste of time. 

Andi


> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:39:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] New Relinking Tip
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> Additional note: the media was originally linked in MC6.5 but the project is now 7.0.4.
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> On May 30, 2014, at 9:36 AM, hoplist@hillmanncarr.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > Maybe others have noticed this, but with the rapidly changing AMA linking I'm finding new tricks, at least new to me:
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> > I could not get P2 media that was originally AMA linked in MC 6.5 to relink after it was moved. The Relink to AMA Media menu option was not available and basic "Relink" did not work, of course.
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> > The trick: Find the original P2 folder in the Finder and OPTION drag and drop the enclosing P2 media folder into the bin containing the unlinked media, as if linking for the first time. Instead of creating a new set of clips, as I expected, MC relinks the media to the existing clips! Woo-hoo! Presumably using the menu AMA Link command would work as well, but I have not yet tried this.
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> > Cheers,
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