The clips appear identical in length and start time code. There are no tape names as these were XDCam proxy imports. Avid doesn't add a tape name during that process does it?
You are correct about the glutton side of my tests but given the multitude of AEs that work at our place I'm trying to emulate different possible approaches that may conflict or coexist. As has been pointed out it's ill advised to use legacy XDCam import along with ama XDCam workflow on the same project.
We have already had issues when for whatever reason the Batch ingest from XD Direct created a few clips that were offline. Fortunately we were able to the batch import just that clip while still in Avid thereby maintaining consistency of metadata with the rest of the clips.
Specifically relinking the batch import clips to the decompose clips is a way of confirming that both approaches result in compatible clips. If none of the clips relinked I'd say they are different clips entirely just like importing the same graphic twice will create two individual clips that don't relink to each other, but given two of the clips relinked video only there seems to be some commonality. Ultimately for an online uprez getting the clips online is the objective but like we've already encountered there are going to be times when we will have to reimport media in a manner that will hopefully relink to existing clips.
I did find the XDCam Legacy Import a bit iffy or inconsistent. It hung on me a couple times and left some stranded media in the avidmediafiles folder. I don't know why the import process stalled but after CMD + "." to stop it I could see some clips and delete the media but the clip it stalled on didn't appear in the bin so I had to go to the avid media files folder to delete the .mxf files that got stranded. Also even though I have "ingest proxy media on disk insertion" checked it never seemed to happen. I always had to go to file:XDCam Proxy Import.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <kwikpasta@...> wrote :
As far as I know you can only use these extra options when relinking clips to a sequence, not clips to clips. It's always been like that but it would be great if this got changed so you could always use all metadata fields regardless of what you are relinking to, be it sequence or master clip.
Are you sure the decomposed clips are the same length? When you decomposed, you gave the clips 24 frame handles in the handles dialog of the decompose menu, if you are batch importing the sequence do your batch import handles in the import settings dialog match what you gave the decompose clips - my import settings handles default to 30 frames but my decompose handles default to 50 - might be worth checking?
Do the import clips of your sequence and your decompose clips match exactly? And do they both have the same tape name? Given that you are forced to relink via start tc and Tape Name/Source File ID do your clips all have the same tape name? If not then you'll have to modify that.
My main question is why are you even trying to relink to the decomposed clips when you had the sequence online from the first batch import and then you had it online again when you batch imported the sequence? Glutton for punishment springs to mind! ;) I've got to say, I've never found this workflow iffy, works great for me.
Andi
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 08:31:26 +0000
Subject: [Avid-L2] Legacy XDCam workflow seems iffy?
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