This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Preventing former AMA files from relinking back to AMA sources?

Friday, November 7, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Preventing former AMA files from relinking back to AMA sources?

Yes, that's the setting I was thinking of. Since your media drive is always online, I thought it might have an effect.

Honestly, I have never seen this problem before. As you stated, normally keeping things linked or relinking things when you want to is where the difficulty usually arises.

On Friday, November 7, 2014, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I looked through the settings and all the volume mounting options are
unchecked except of "when mounting previously mounted volumes, do not
check for modifications to the volume." Are you thinking of the
"Automatically AMA-link to volumes" setting? It's unchecked.

I think the relink happened when I attempted to relink a single clip in
a separate bin.

Apparently, the AVID then decided to relink all the consolidated media
back to AMA files that it could find. Too bad there isn't a way to say
"This AMA clip has been consolidated. It's in the Avid Media Folder.
Don't look back!"

I've heard so many tales of AMA links failing in an edit that I move off
of AMA as soon as I can. I wouldn't think it would be hard to break the
links on purpose without having to hide files.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014, at 08:19 AM, John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com
[Avid-L2] wrote:
> Turn off automatic linking in AMA settings?
>
> On Friday, November 7, 2014, Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <
> Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Move the AMA source file from wherever it exists on disk into another
> > folder. Or rename the source file. That's the only way I know to break the
> > spell MC has over it.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us
> > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','danlist@bestmail.us');> [Avid-L2] <
> > Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com');>> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Symph 7.03
> >>
> >> I have some animation files rendered in the DNxHD codec on the same
> >> drive as my Avid Media Folder.
> >>
> >> I have AMAed them in and then consolidated them so they exist as media
> >> in the Avid Media Folder.
> >>
> >> I have then cut the consolidated version into my sequence.
> >>
> >> Every once in a while, one of them relinks back to the original file.
> >>
> >> Any way to stop that from happening? Any way to force a relink to an
> >> Avid media file instead of an original AMA source?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >
> >
> >