now that is a good thing to know. thanks!
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On Jul 20, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> 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@
>>>>
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