[Avid-L2] Matching Master Clips don't relink?

After two years they finally sold a project we onlined.  Unfortunately part of the Online Media is missing.  Fortunately it was mostly the camera original media.  I was able to get the OCN original camera media and consolidate it to avid wrapped AVC-I from Panny Varicam 35 and a Sony shooting to ProRes 422 at UHD.  The project is 4096_2160 and I center crop the UHD.  I had the original ama bins and when I went to source browser and linked to the OCN the original bins came online and pleasantly the LUT info didn't reset itself, which has been my experience in the past.  The first time I transcoded to DNxHR HQX but this time I just consolidated to save space.  After the consolidation the bins that had the original transcoded clips relinked to the new consolidated media.  A few games to relinking the UHD and everything was online. 

I then consolidated the sequence with 24 frame handles.  All is good up to this point and when I looked at the original clips bin that was linked to the missing media I noticed many if not most of the clips were identical to my newly consolidated sequence clips.  Given the above mentioned ability to relink the original full length transcoded clips to the newly made full length consolidated clips I figured I could do the same with the original consolidated with handle clips.  I know master clips are finicky but even ones that match absolutely in and out points won't relink to the newly consolidated media.  Given what worked with the full length clips I'm curious why the other master clips won't relink given they match in length and I assume under the hood magic ama ID metadata.

It's not the end of the world but the original master clip bin has my suffix renaming to allow for Symphony relational color correction to work efficiently in Src Clip Name corrections.  I could manually rename the new clips to match the suffixes from the original clip bin but I would think I should just be able to relink the original clip bin to the new media as long as the in and out of the master clips match.  IIRC Avid years back allowed for a little more tolerance to master clip relinking.

I'm gonna play a little more and see what I come up with.  I can always flatten the color correction to avoid odd relational links to the color correction but that's just too practical and boring.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net