This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: 56TB of XDCam Virtual volumes AMA reliability?

I had brought that up but because they want to LTO the XDCam disk virtual volumes from the san to deliver the source material on LTO I was told we couldn't do that. The idea being that the XDCam disc structure is universal but once wrapped as Avid MXF it is not.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Robert Lawson <avidrhl@...> wrote:
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> XDCam HD is a native format for Media Composer. If you're copying 56TB
> to your SAN anyway, you may as well import into Avid. It's a re-wrap
> more than a transcode, so it doesn't really take any more time than a
> file copy.
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> Your Avid will thank you for it.
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> On 11/12/11, Shawn Broes <shawn.broes@...> wrote:
> > Have Plan B in place?
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> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> >> I love AMA when used appropriately. That said, I would never commit a
> >> project to using it on a long term, multi-workstation workflow.
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> >> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@> wrote:
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> >> > I think I know the answer but wanted to ask the group. Copying 24 hour
> >> XDCamHD disks/day times 9 cameras for 3 weeks would yield 4,536 Virtual
> >> Volumes. Assuming that each day is in a parent folder for the day with
> >> 216
> >> Virtual volumes inside there would be 21 Parent/Day folders with 216 files
> >> each. Come online is it conceivable that all I would have to do is mount
> >> the 21 day parent folders and the sequences would link through ama to the
> >> virtual XDCam volumes in the parent folders. This would happen after the
> >> Virtual volumes have been ama'd and transcoded to 10:1 for offline in 9
> >> camera multicam groups. I find this a big if to think that big of
> >> something filling up a 56TB san with virtual volumes will link through ama
> >> reliably. We already have the infrastructure to do the show on DVCProHD
> >> tape which would be my preference but this workflow is being considered.
> >> Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated and of course they start shooting
> >> in less
> >> > three weeks so there's not much time to test the feasibility of this on
> >> a large scale.
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> >> > John Moore
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> >> > Barking Trout Productions
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> >> > Studio City, CA
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> >> > bigfish@
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