In what way is ama linking better here? For me if I have an open title .mov it has always been easier to import it the traditional way. I would think having to ama link the open title and transcode would be more work than just batch importing, or is it proper to say batch reimporting here?, I ama link to files all the time to check them and we use an ama link transcode approach for various cameras but I would never think to ama link to stills or graphic elements as they are very easy to uprezz as an import.
Now when it comes to really long clips like a .mov for an entire show where only one shot is used then I see the value of an ama link and transcode of just what was used. Given when these type of clips come in we have to import them all anyways it has traditionally been more automatic to just import to offline resolution and then later manually ama link to clip and over cut then transcode just the ama'd clips.
My gut is still leery of ama links in offline to online workflows but perhaps I should reconsider it. We certainly do ama many types of material but graphics and stills have never been one of them unless it was the only way to get them to be seen by Avid. Also the tendency of many AEs to still add tape names to ama linked clips has further complicated trying to get a stable ama food chain.
At it's very core ama brought the unreliable media management of other applications into the Avid world. Great for flexibility but not for reliability compared to Avid's traditional media workflows.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <pat@...> wrote :
Failing to use the better linking method over the legacy import is the issue here.
Pat from his mobile.
Posted by: bigfish@pacbell.net
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