This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] AMA transcode straight to on-line workflow

You can relink back to the original media (provides you are not transcoding
frame rate) from the .new clips on MC 6.5.

Not sure it's possible in mc5.

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Wilson Chao wrote:

> I'm confused here. If you transcode everything at full resolution,
> why would you ever need to go back to the camera original files. Why
> wouldn't you simply retain the transcoded .new clips, edit with them,
> and forget the original files? There's no need to relink, and no
> need for the AMA'd clips after transcoding is finished. What am I
> missing here?
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Paul Dougherty <lists@postlit.com<javascript:;>>
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> > Think I have this straight but want to make sure. (working in MC5) I
> have many camera card directories (mostly Canon) in a big project on a
> tight deadline. Don't feel like I have time for an off-line phase and want
> to keep everything full-rez. So even though there is no off-line, this is a
> legacy project that will be revisited. Am I right in thinking it's best I
> not (never*) to edit with the ".new" clips because they can never link back
> to the original camera directories?
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> > So in spite of the rush, once the transcoding is finished I will take
> the original camera directories off line and link the now "empty of media"
> AMA bins to the newly made transcoded media, right? ( will also set aside
> the ".new" clips because they have served their purpose.
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> > *I guess the one exception - racing to a deadline knowing one will never
> go back to original camera directories, ever.
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> > Thanks in advance,
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> > Paul
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