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AMA problems with Consolidating/Transcoding
Hello,
I am working on an Adrenaline MC5 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.4. We have been cutting a feature using the AMA function. Unfortunately I am now seeing that Avid will not export AAF/OMF with media brought in through AMA. All the video was linked in through AMA, but all the audio was imported and not through AMA. When I try to do anything like consolidate a reel, transcode it, or export an AAF using the video mixdown option I always eventually run into an error (Error: Range specified for Dup is outside range of component).
I even tried exporting an avid codec quicktime, then reimporting into the system at 14:1 and then just use that as my video and add the tracks of audio. But I still got the message that this is an AMA file and I can not export AAF with only link to or Copy media as a choice. How is this using AMA when I imported an MOV and not linked it, and when all of the audio brought in was imported as well?
I am trying to figure out any way to get an OMF to my audio mixer as quickly as possible. Any advice or methos of getting around the AMA/AAF issue would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Adam
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7 Replies
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Assuming all audio was imported, and not accessed under AMA, have you tried duplicating the sequence then removing all video tracks first?
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Yes I have even tried that. I duplicated the sequence, put it in a separate bin and attempted to consolidate and also to get an AAF but the same error message comes up.
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On top of that, when trying to export a sequence that is only Audio and I delete the video tracks, it still gave me a message saying that it cannot export this because of AMA. Which when exporting the audio only sequence, in the AAF settings, I unclicked video, but it wouldn’t let me export unless I set it to do video mixdown of video. Which still didn’t matter because the same error of Range specified for Dup is outside range of component still comes up.
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Yes, Avid will not export AAF nor OMF from any sequence containing footage accessed via AMA. So if any of the audio in the sequence comes from QT clips or native formats accessed via AMA, avid won’t do it. Because with QT, the audio and video are in ONE file, not separate.
Best option would be to transcode the sequence to DNxHD and then export.
AMA should only be used to access footage you intend to transcode. Editing native via AMA is full of pitfalls. The workflow doesn’t plug in to the production chain. No export for audio, for example.
Many people, including myself, have warned people about this issue. But not everyone reads those blogs or forum posts, until they hit the issue. I chalk this up to Avid marketing. Selling an idea that doesn’t work in the real world. Like Apple saying that mixing frame rates works well. AMA native editing in Avid has many drawbacks
Shane
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Thank you both for the help.
Unfortunately, I just transcoded a reel into 14:1 and attempted to export that AAF. I was happy and surprised to see the AMA sequence did transcode without an error. But when I set that transcoded sequence to export as AAF, I again received the same error message.
Adam
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Thanks for the help. Eventually we figured out the problem. I was able to get a transcode done but the error messages were coming from these corrupt SFX files. So I replaced them and after a transcode, the AAFs are working out fine.
Thanks again,
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im having my own problem hear wondering if maybe you could help me out.
i am running avid 6 and osx lion and i have a project and i used link to ama and now i want to transcode but it wont seem to let me if you have any ideas i would love to hear them.
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