12TB is toast – need to relink MXF to AMAs

[Richard Sanchez]

Yes you can, however exporting from linked AMA clips might be slow and prone to error.

Try this link. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20021366/Avid%20Workflow%20Docs/Hotel%20Hell%20Workflow%20Guide%20%28REV%20022012%29.pdf

It’s a workflow guide I made for a show I recently worked on that was an all AMA based workflow. The last part describes relinking via AMA. The gist of it is, link AMA volumes, bring all your clips up via AMA, highlight the AMA clips, and then in a separate bin, highlight the sequence. Right click and select “Relink selected items in All open bins”

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Frederic Lumiere]

Richard,

Thanks so much! excellent suggestion. It allowed me to get a cut out. Still have to re-transcode all the lost footage for realtime editing but at least I could output a cut.

You da man!

F

[Richard Sanchez]

Glad I could help!

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Aaron Shadwell]

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[Frederic Lumiere]

Is there anyway to render the parts of the timeline where the AMAs are in order to play smoothly?

I don’t have time to retranscode all the AMAs but I do have time to render the timeline for it to play smoothly so I can refine the edit…

[Richard Sanchez]

You could subsequence the part of the sequence that you want to play smoothly. Then, right click that sub sequence and select transcode, that way you can transcode that potion of the timeline with handles. I would give it very healthy sized handles if you plan to do much cutting around, but that might be a decent compromise.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Frederic Lumiere]

Cool, so that would transcode the clips individually with handles?

Also, it would ignore the clips that are already in the same codec? So that’s what checking “Include reformatted clips already at target resolution is for?

Exciting to discover all these AVID features…

[Richard Sanchez]

From what I understand, if you check “Include reformatted clips already at target resolution” it will retranscode those clips. Unchecking it will leave those alone.

This is the basis by which my workflow works in transcoding AMA clips in a timeline, and also why you want to remove your offline reference video, because if your mix down is online if your sequence and you transcode your offline reference at 8:1me, it will transcode it as DNxHD when it’s not necessary.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Frederic Lumiere]

I wish you could choose to transcode the whole clips rather than just handles…

[Richard Sanchez]

In the bin with your sequence, using the hamburger menu in the lower left, you can select “Set Bin Display” and enable “Show Reference Clips”. That should show you all your used AMA clips. If you transcode those, you should be transcoding the whole clip.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks