This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] AMA relinking issues with MC 6.5

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] AMA relinking issues with MC 6.5

My thoughts:
AMA relinking based on file duration alone sucks big time. (imagine you want
to do a show on commercials...)
What happened to relinking based on Reel / TC? (let alone MC refusing to
take Reelname from a QT.)
That should work always no matter how big / small the overlap is. If the
media to relink is inside a clip, do the link!
(this has never worked properly to my taste, always black magic...)

Besides that, clips now can have a UMID, making every single piece of
footage have a unique fingerprint (That i've never seen in use in any NLE,
correct me if i'm wrong)

I don't see other options than both using the same version of MC.
(and that sucks too, this means you cannot relink your material if you
upgrade..)

Bouke

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----- Original Message -----
From: "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 2:27 AM
Subject: [Avid-L2] AMA relinking issues with MC 6.5

Curious if others have run into this.

Another editor and I are working on the same media using duplicate media
drives. All footage is from C300 and 5D MkIII cameras, but it has already
been converted to ProResHQ 23.98p prior to the edit. It has proper TC and
reel numbers courtesy of FCP 7 Log & Transfer and/or MPEG
Streamclip/QtChange. All source clips were only from the converted ProResHQ
QuickTime media.

The other editor did the rough cut edit using MC 5.0. All media was accessed
via AMA Link to File. I picked up the edit for client revisions using the
cloned media drive and his imported MC project. I'm on MC 6.5. When I
relinked to the media on the clone drive, about 20% of the files failed to
relink. This appeared to be a duration mismatch. Somehow one system saw the
media files as 1 frame less than the other.

For any of the clips that didn't relink, I brought them in again via AMA and
cut them back into the sequences. Then I noticed that all clips, which had
successfully relinked, no longer had source TC. The clips that I had to
bring in again DID display TC. Yet when I reviewed the exported rough cut
file that the other editor had output from his session (with burn in), those
clips did have TC that was read on MC 5.0. But they didn't show source TC on
MC 6.5 unless brought in again as new AMA clips.

In any case, the files that relinked, but had no TC, still appeared in their
correct positions in all the sequences. Since both MC systems were using
identical copies of the same media, this appears to be a problem between MC
5.0 and 6.5 related to AMA media relinking.
Thoughts?

- Oliver