This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Sequence goes offline when a bin of initial sequence is opened?

So now that I've delivered the show I had a chance to experiment more today. Once again I can repeat the behavior of opening my sequence and everything is online but then when I open the bin with the original sequence my sequence goes offline. Today I tried opening the original sequence bin first and then opening my main online sequence bin second. In this order of bin opening my main sequence stays online and the original sequence bin suddenly comes all online. My understanding is these types of behaviors fall in a category called MOB conflict IIRC from a Steve Bayes post many years ago. It seems the last bin to be opened gets to impart it's linkage knowledge on the other opened bins so when I was opening the original sequence bin 2nd it told everybody the media was on the original volume I had consolidated the clips from. Given that volume wasn't mounted everything went offline. Doing the opposite order of bin opening and my current sequence tells the original sequence bin to get it's media from my consolidated to volume.

I still don't understand why I couldn't just manually relink back to my consolidated media when things went offline but I didn't try to hard and given V 5.5.3.7 doesn't have the advanced relinking choices V6 does it isn't surprising I couldn't relink to media that had been transcoded ama but with no tape name added. Perhaps some of the allow ama relinking check boxes might have made a difference but I don't have the time to experiment right now.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> Weird. Only thing I would try doing is blow away the media databases and
> recreate them. Could be something funky there.
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:58 PM, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> > Mac OS 10.6.8 SNDX 5.5.3.7. I have a 23.98 project that required a lot of
> > over cutting for the uprez. The majority of the footage is Sony F55 and
> > that was linked ama and transcoded to DNX 175 for uprez. Some material was
> > given tape names originally for offline but I'm told much of the footage
> > would not relink after mounting the volumes through ama and adding the same
> > tape name as before. After a while the AE had to just over cut and he
> > stopped adding tape names.
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> > I took the final up rezzed sequence and the bin of transcoded clips and I
> > consolidated those clips to a single dedicated volume for this show. I
> > took the AE's sequence and option dragged a copy into my sequence bin. I
> > then had the entire sequence online with media on my newly consolidated
> > volume and everything is fine. Today I went back and opened the bin where
> > I originally option dragged the sequence I've been working on came from.
> > As soon as I open the bin my main sequence goes completely offline. I
> > forced quit right away and went back into Avid relaunching and everything
> > was back online. I then did some playing around and no matter what after
> > opening the original sequence bin, and I didn't even load the sequence my
> > main sequence goes offline and no amount of relinking seems to bring it
> > back online. WTF? I know on 5.5.3.7 I don't have all the extra relink
> > options but I did try highlighting all the transcoded clips and relinking
> > the sequence to selected clips in other bins. The only other thing is I
> > had to cut my main sequence into a new sequence in order to get proper 24
> > frame TC1. Anybody got any ideas what might be going on. For now I just
> > can't open the original bin that my sequence came from. It's like opening
> > the original bin is telling my current sequence that it should no longer
> > link to the clips I consolidated to a dedicated volume and I can only guess
> > it thinks maybe the clips should be on the original volume the AE
> > transcoded to. Very strange.
> >
> > John Moore
> > Barking Trout Productions
> > Studio City, CA
> > bigfish@...
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