[Avid-L2] Re: Avid and P2

Agreed. I have been using AMA and consolidate hand-in-hand for six months now and NEVER have had any problems losing media. AMA is flat out fantastic for XDCAM and P2 importing. I "link to", then "consolidate", choosing to relink to consolidated media. I then delete master clips of all AMA linked media (after consolidate now named .old), so I only have consolidated footage to work with. Works smoothly every time. Once Avid makes that footage its own, it remains forever linked. It's also my way of making the duplicate copy so that I'm not working off of the client's firewire drive. Plus, SATA or fiber storage will give much better performance with the MXF wrapped media. It is a workflow that saves headaches and overall saves time. I always tell my editors that anything labeled yellow should be looked at as temporary, and they know to consolidate before working with it. I'm surprised anybody (outside of run-and-gun edits) works with AMA footage - the editing performance from flash/firewire/USB drives is rough compared to internal SATA or fiber/SAN/whatever.

Thumbs way up for AMA>Consolidate workflow. I wouldn't think of using it any other way...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Shane Ross <comeback@...> wrote:
>
> And again, the issue arose BEFORE we used AMA. From Avid MC 2.7.7. The
> small amount of footage we used AMA for was consolidated and is still
> present.
>
> Editing footage directly from the AMA bin is reserved for workflows
> that need quick, immediate turnaround times, like news gathering. Any
> long term editing MUST consolidate if you want editing to go smoothly
>
> IMHO.
>
> Shane
>
> Sent from my iPad mini
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:27 AM, oliverpetersvidy <oliverpeters@...
> > wrote:
>
> > > Terence Curren wrote:
> > > Great comparison. Maybe this is the standard in a file based world.
> >
> > There are other models. It's worth looking at Vegas Pro, EDIUS and
> > Premiere Pro in this case. PPro views the P2 directory structure in
> > their media browser and then does a type of "soft import" when a
> > clip is dragged from the media browser into the project's browser
> > window. Presumably a bit like AMA, but there's no further
> > transcoding or consolidation step. I have not played extensively
> > with it, but when I have, it didn't exhibit the "media offline"
> > issue like AMA.
> >
> > - Oliver
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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