This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] DMF and Network Drives

Saturday, February 28, 2015

RE: [Avid-L2] DMF and Network Drives

I am not sure it is the network drive that is the issue but if it is we can get round that by mounting the storage (is it the Venice or the Spycerbox?) as a DLC mount which will present it as block storage and not a mapped network drive. If the DMF issue is related to the network drive then that should deal with it. If DMF is using system events (like the Media Indexer on DS does, to see changes on the storage) then I am not sure SNFS passes those so that would remain an issue even if you use DLC.

We can give it a go setting it up on Teamviewer if you like?

Rupert Watson

+44 7787 554801

www.root6.com

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 28 February 2015 17:24
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] DMF and Network Drives

We were trying to automate it really. We currently import the files rather than AMA to get around the UID issues.

We were hoping the avid which just sit there and link and consolidate and transcode which it would if the media files weren't on a network drive it seems.

We need to transcode to a lower resolution for the edit which usually happens overnight.

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 28 February 2015 16:58
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] DMF and Network Drives

The idea of recording to OP-Atom would be to dispense with the AMA altogether and just drop the Avid native files straight into the Mediafiles folder and scan them. Make a new numbered folder every day so you don't scan yesterday's media though. Drop the mdb file in a bin and off you go. I am not near a Venice at the moment but I am fairly certain you can make OP-Atom wrapped XDCAM essence files.

We might need to update the Venice to the latest version which has a new wrapper for the XDCAM, I think, which is intended to fix the intermittent relinking issue you saw a while back.

Rupert Watson
www.root6.com
+44 7787 554801

On 28 Feb 2015, at 16:20, Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Could give it a try.. Not sure the dynamic media folder thing works unless it's an AMA source though…