This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Sony F7 footage Avid ama requirements?

Friday, November 6, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Sony F7 footage Avid ama requirements?

Here's what the AE has found. One station has Avid MC 8.3.1 and we installed the latest Sony 3.41 ama plugin and the footage worked. It seems these later ama plugins that are compatible with the camera but these ama plugin are only for Avid Ver. 7 and above. Can anyone confirm there is no way to make the F7 version ama link in Avid 6.5.4? All our research points in that direction but it would be great given the rest of the facility is on 6.5.4 to not have to upgrade them but be able to access the footage if possible. Of course once the AE transcodes to offline media the rest of the stations will be able to access that but it would be better to not start running differing versions unless absolutely necessary.Here's a post from a while back somewhat related but I don't see in mentioning the FS7 specifically as a camera involved.

121624New XDCAM & Sony RAW AMA plugins

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avid_curren

Nov 17 11:51 AM

Sony, one of our Avid partners has released new AMA plug-in's in support of Media Composer | Software v7.0.4, v8.1 and v8.2.

- Sony XAVC/XDCAM AMA plugin 3.3.1 now available (PDZK-MA2)

These plug-ins for Mac and Windows come with official support for Media Composer v8.1 and v8.2. Also these plug come-ins come with support for the PXW-X70 XAVC Long MXF format.

- Sony RAW AMA plugin 2.4 now available (PLAV-RW1)

These plug-ins support for DMF (Dynamic Media Folder ) in Media Composer | Software v8.1 and v8.2. Updated for Compatibility with the NVIDIA 340.52 graphics card driver. These plug-ins add support for new log curves and color gamut support for F65, PMW-F55/F5, NEX-FS700 as well as support for relinking F5/F55 Raw clips to XAVC or MPEG2 proxies. Also updated white and black reference levels for S-Gamut3.Cine/Slog3

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

If it's the FS7, that was the source of my hurt a couple of days ago. XAVC-L footage never AMA linked - I had to use ProRes transcodes. We've successfully used XAVC-I before from the same camera, so it may be long-GOP related. Which might also relate to AMA issues with XAVC MP4s out of the A7s prosumer camera, perhaps.

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:11 PM, 'Bouke ( Edit'B)' bouke@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Sony ama plugin.
But auto select might fail, you need to tell Mc what plugin to use
(Al least on my Win systems)

Bouke

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Op 6 nov. 2015 om 20:02 heeft John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven:

I did an L2 search for Sony F7 and only see F700 in the subject lines. Our AEs have some Sony F7 footage that they can't seem to ama link to. They are on Ver 6.5.4 mac Avid MC. Is there an ama plugin for this media that will work on this version of Avid? They say the file structure has an XDRoot like XDCam. TIA

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@...