Re: [Avid-L2] Help for audio files quarantined with CM_INVALID_TRIM error

This is not meant as a criticism of Mr. Brockington, but my experience is
that many people have the impression that the M in AMA stands for "Magic".

The requirements and limitations for an AMA workflow are well documented
but the common perception seems to be that AMA should work for everything.
It doesn't help that Avid relies on 3rd parties to develop their own AMA
plugins and those 3rd party plugins aren't always easy to find. Sony has
gotten better but I find Canon's support/download site to be frustrating,
for example.

I encounter many editors, as well, who forget that File + Import is still a
perfectly valid workflow for many file formats.

---
Rob Lawson
System Administrator, ACSR ISIS, Windows & Interplay
CBS News


On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com>wrote:

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>
>
>
> Michael,
>
> The most important question here is: why are you using AMA to bring in
> BWAV files? AMA was never designed to support this workflow, and by using
> it, you are risking all kinds of issues - depending on the project format
> and sample rate.
>
> BWF/BWAV/WAV is supported through File->Import, and that is the way you
> should go about this. Using AMA will - IIRC - essentially rely on whatever
> the AMA QT plugin passes on to MC. That's not a reliable source for this
> type of file at all.
>
> File->Import has some specific properties that allow for proper BEXT chunk
> metadata extraction as well as proper sample rate handling (including
> pullup/pulldown rates).
>
> Import is the ONLY supported way to bring in BWAV files.
>
> Job
>
>
> On 9 feb. 2013, at 21:34, Michael Brockington brocking@sfu.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> > - import .wav files via AMA, and consolidate them to an empty MXF/1
> folder
> >
>
>
>


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