Re: [Avid-L2] C300 footage solved

Yup - copy everything into a new folder (nearly always). I've had to hammer this home to 80 freshmen (I think you call them) this week!

On 5 Oct 2012, at 20:45, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> I had not downloaded the 64 bit version. That was one problem.
>
> The other was stupid, and I should have known better, but it may help some other stupid person, so I will outline my error:
>
> I was trying to use the AMA VOLUME option instead of AMA FILE.
>
> When I copied the folders over from the card, I dragged the CONTENT folder from the card to my RAID, leaving it named CONTENT and not touching any of the other folder structure. I also had to copy ANOTHER card's worth of footage onto the same RAID, but of course, the folder name for THAT card was also "CONTENT." So, I created a folder on the RAID called "CURRENT PROJECT" and dropped the second card's CONTENT folder into that to keep it from overwriting the first card's information.
>
> When I tried to AMA the first card, using VOLUME, I pointed at the CONTENT folder and the Avid didn't see any AMA-able files. But when I pointed at the second folder, that had the second CONTENT folder inside of it, it worked perfectly. Since that worked, I created another folder on the RAID called "CURRENT PROJECT2" and dropped the first CONTENT folder into it and then the AMA of those files also worked perfectly.
>
> So the lesson is that the Avid is used to having you point to a CARD with the CONTENT folder IN it... and if you copy the CONTENT folder to a RAID or some other drive, you either need to put it into a folder on the RAID, or you have to point to the ENTIRE RAID, which of course, could import a LOT of stuff that you may not want.
>
> Lesson learned. I swear I didn't have to do this with the Sony F3 footage or the P2 footage or the XDCAM footage that I've previously AMA'd from files copied to the RAID, but maybe I did and this is just a lesson RE-learned.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
>

With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660





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