Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AMAProducerTask Error?

Many times I have had problems transcoding linked AMA files, where some
error (I don't recall if it is the same as yours) pops up and halts the
transcode process. Glad to say I have found the solution for this.

It is an annoying solution, but once I found it, my subsequent transcodes
never fail (and I do mean never).

Link your AMA clips or volume
Open your bin columns choices and highlight END
Sort by this column
Any clips that do not have a value for END will be the ones to halt your
transcodes. If you see any here with no END value, delete them and link
again. Repeat until they show up with an END value. Then transcode away.

I cannot say that this has anything to do with your problem, only it is a
quirk of AMA link and transcode that I was elated to have finally found a
solution for. Hope that helps.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:18 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

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>
>
> Yet another new day and I found my render crashed after about 30 clips. I
> found several discussion threads about the AMAProducerTask Error with no
> answer other than it sucks and it's inconsistent. Well I finally bailed on
> Avid doing the transcodes.
>
> I went back to the main sequence and did my don't look at the media
> relinking with all the sma linked Red R3D files ama linked to the sequence.
> I then exported an aaf and imported that into Resolve with use embedded
> time code but had to shut off assist using Reel numbers. As Scott has
> pointed our the aaf's take the reel number from the source file name and
> the problem I had was the reel number we had added to the ama'd Red clips
> was not embedded into the R3D files. So Resolve wouldn't link the sequence
> with assist with Reel numbers checked. There is probably some exotic way of
> configuring this behavior but I don't have time to experiment with that
> now. On another show the Assit with Reel numbers works because it is a tape
> based show and the Reel number metadata does get embedded into the clip
> media. Not the case on the Red show
>
> So now I'm going to led the timeline export with the Avid Round trip easy
> set up and I'll see later what I end up with. According to my AE after this
> part of the process he has had to manually re-add the reel numbers to these
> rendered out clips to get them to relink back in Avid. I guess this is also
> part of the aaf reel numbers not being usable. The edl window does however
> show the correct reel names so maybe I'll be surprised but that's not
> likely from what I've been going through.
>
> I don't know who to blame for the Producer Task error. Is it Red not
> making a robust ama plug in or is there something on the Avid side. It sure
> makes all but an initial transcode to full Res from the R3D files a
> complete pain and virtually unusable in this particular situation. Oh well
> more will be revealed.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
> >
> > So today is a new day and I went back to ama link the reels that gave me
> the producer task error and WTF they loaded and would appear in the source
> monitor. Then after loading the forth reel volume the producer task error
> came back. I still loaded all the reels as ama volumes and gave them the
> appropriate tape name and the entire sequence showed it was linked. When I
> went to transcode the sequence the producer task error reappeared on the
> first clip and stopped the transcode without a crash.
> >
> > I restarted the Avid and remounted all the volumes giving each a reel
> name and setting the source setting to camera metadata. I made sure to turn
> of viewing in the sequence and I never once loaded any clips in the source
> monitor. I refreshed the source settings on all the sequence versions and
> relinked them all. I then hit transcode and it started transcoding without
> an error. It's on clip 8 of 555 and because of disk space I choose DNX 145
> for the test but so far so good.
> >
> > I can only speculate that some how the Producer Task error gets
> generated from some aspect of displaying the clips and the more clips the
> more likely this happens. Also these folder are usually one clip that is
> over an hour. Some have a few short clips and an hour plus one. If I close
> the bins and reopen them things are okay and everything sticks but if I
> quit Avid and start up again reopening the bins shows the clips without the
> ama link icon, at least for the hour plus clips, and the clips show as
> offline. So each time Avid is restarted I have to remount the ama volumes
> and go through the renaming ext... This is on SNDX 6.0.4 OS 10.6.8 macpro 8
> core with 14 GB or ram. Hopefully the transcode will complete successfully.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Attempting to link to ama volumes of Red Epic footage on mac SNDX
> 6.0.4 Red ver 1.8 ama plugin.
> > > Some of the multi Red cameras link but others don't giving the
> following message in the source monitor:
> > >
> > > AMAProducerTask::Execute AMA Plug-In Unable to Provide Sample
> > >
> > > The clip show up in the bin with time code start and end and the icon
> for ama link but no video can be had and the clip won't play. I have 2
> shows for each camera and in some cases on show from a camera will work but
> not the other show for the same camera. Weird.
> > >
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > > Studio City, CA
> > > bigfish@
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>
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