Re: [Avid-L2] Error transcoding AVCHD

I've actually uprezzed about an hour-long timeline relying on Avid's
ability to tell what's already been transcoded within a sequence. But I
guess that's different from transcoding a bunch of clips.


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Michael Brockington <brocking@sfu.ca>wrote:

> **
>
>
> I have tried that with incomplete transcodes from bins of AMA clips.
>
> My results were not consistent. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it
> created new transcodes of clips that had already been transcoded. I
> believe I always had the 'include reformatted clips..." checkbox
> de-selected.
>
> Cheers,
> --Michael
>
>
> On 13-01-07 10:18 PM, namyrb wrote:
> > Need confirmation on the following statement:
> >
> > Just select all AMA clips and transcode. Avid knows which clips have
> > already been transcoded/consolidated. For transcode, make sure that
> > "Include reformatted clips are already at target resolution" is
> DESELECTED.
> > And for consolidate, make sure that "Skip media files already on the
> > target drive" is SELECTED.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Michael Brockington brocking@sfu.ca
> >wrote:
> >
> >> **
>
> >>
> >>
> >> The seemingly random order of transcoding is annoying, for sure. But
> >> since nothing involving computers is really random unless you force it
> >> to be, there probably is an order to the transcode that doesn't happen
> >> to be obvious to the users. Maybe an engineer from Avid could drop us a
> >> hint as to what that might be?
> >>
> >> In the meantime, depending on how many files you're dealing with when
> >> your transcode breaks, you may find it easier to pick up where you left
> >> off via the following procedure:
> >>
> >> 1. Move your newly created transcodes to a separate bin and assemble a
> >> sequence of them.
> >> 2. Relink that sequence to your original AMA media.
> >> 3. Select the relinked sequence and use 'select sources' which should
> >> highlight the AMA media that was successfully transcoded.
> >> 4. Reverse the selection in your AMA bin, and you should be ready to
> >> pick up the transcoding from where it failed.
> >>
> >> Still cumbersome, but maybe less tedious than sorting through a long
> >> list of clips, weeding out duplicate filenames.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> --Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> On 13-01-07 9:33 AM, Keld von Eyben wrote:
> >>> I continue running into various error messages while transcoding
> >>> AMA-linked AVCHD files from Sony FS100/700 camera.
> >>> Sometimes hundreds of clips will transcode without errors, other times
> >>> the process stops after 2, 5, 15 or other number of files.
> >>> Equally irritating: the transcode/consolidate process does not work on
> >>> the clips in the order they are sorted in the bin, but seems to follow
> a
> >>> completely random order. This makes it really time consuming to select
> >>> the clips that has not yet been transcoded before restarting the
> process.
> >>> Transcoding other media types like XDCAM EX always complete without
> >>> errors.
> >>> I'm on Win7 MCP 6.5
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone else seen this?
> >>> Is it a memory leak issue?
> >>> Will an upgrade of the AMA plugin solve the issue - and where should
> >>> this upgrade come from (Sony? Avid?)
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Keld von Eyben
> >>> www.filmsolutions.dk
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
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