And by "dick" I meant "disk" because I'm old enough to know what dick to put in when up rezzing. Perhaps this process is just dicking me around to much or is it the lack of sleep?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> So I have reconciled myself to the fact that the way to mount the XDCam ama clips is to set ama to active bin. Open a target bin and make it the selected bin. Then insert the XDCam disk and it magically populates the bin with the ama'd clips.
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> I then add a tape name which I also put in the disk label and the clip name. Then I consolidate to a volume. My understanding is this rewraps the XDCam native codec essence in an Avid friendly .mxf file and I believe this will "embed" the added tape name etc... into the consolidate media files. As far as I know that makes a file just as robust as if I captured from tape.
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> One curiosity I found after they consolidated all the disks overnight is that some of the consolidated clips don't have the tape names. In some cases it's 2 clips out of a disk with 4 clips that don't have tape names. I'm wondering if when I cmd "." to stop half way through the consolidation when I picked up the remaining 2 clips that the act of stopping half way through had an impact on the missing tape names etc... of about 3 of 60 clips. I could see if I unmounted and remounted the ama'd XDCam clips I would lose the added tape name but I don't think I did that in this case. Some might be operator error but has anybody seen added tape names etc.... stop being embedded halfway through a consolidate?
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> Now many have suggested there is no longer a need to add tape names as the XDCam is robust etc... Having checked with multiple people I was told by people who do tons of XDCam they do exactly the same steps I'm taking to avoid issues.
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> I think the way the clips popualte the active bin "magically" has perhaps made me more paranoid than I should be so I welcome others experience.
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> Can someone talk me off the ledge here? Each XDCam shows up as "Untitled" on the desk top and all the clip names start at C001, C002 etc... for every disk. With no tape name, disk label and common clip names how could I ever do an offline/online workflow just amaing to the XDCam disks and transcoding to offline resolution? Is there a magical UMID under the hood that would magically tell me what dick to put in when up rezzing? Also it would mean putting in one diak at a time and transcoding to dnx 220 for online. This would mean just inserting the XDCam disk would somehow link it to the sequence right? I feel more comfortable going the long way around here, am I nuts?
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