This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: AMA between mac and PC relinking

Saturday, January 15, 2011

RE: [Avid-L2] Re: AMA between mac and PC relinking

Ah yes but what happens when say 4 separate drives where all mounted as L:
for example.

It is straightforward to relink the clips, but what if we have 200 bins! And
6 shows..

N

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Nick
Sent: 15 January 2011 12:04
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AMA between mac and PC relinking

Bring all your rushes into Avid 1st with File/Link to AMA into a new bin and
then do a relink to AMA of the sequences and clips.

The Link to AMA 1st seems to tell Avid (on PC) where the files are and then
it can relink your sequences.
Any files that are stubborn you can right click on the clip and hit relink
to AMA media which lets you browse and point to the media.
You are correct though that if the drive letter changes Avid loses the link
(sometimes!) Re importing the AMA files (which are only reference files
after all) seems to restore the link.

This tutorial for the Boris AAF plugin shows you how to do it:
http://www.borisfx.com/videos/AAF-Transfer/Relink.php

The tutorial suggests that it only works with Apple Prores files but I have
tried it with DV and MP4 files and it seems to work fine.

The Boris product is very good as well especially if you have Boris
continuum on FCPro and Avid. Seems to be very quick and easy.

Good luck

Nick

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , "Nigel
Gourley" <avid-l@...> wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> So it seems the drive letter is critical for relinking in the PC world.
How
> does this work if you are going between Mac and PC? So AMA and consolidate
> on a mac avid and then do the online and relink back to rushes on a PC.
How
> does it know where the files are?
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> All our research suggests that the drive letter in PC land is critical to
> relinking but we can't figure out where this info is stored. There are no
> bin columns that say the path.
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> This is AMA with QT. Alexa files..
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thanks
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> N
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