5D (Canon DSLR) in Avid MC 5.5.3 via AMA, can’t link back via Relink AMA

[Shawn Swetsky]

I see what you are saying Richard. But it sounds like you have bins that have AMA linked clips always stored. That would be the perferd way of course.

[Shawn Swetsky]

I see what you are saying Richard. But it sounds like you have bins that have AMA linked clips always stored. That would be the perfurd way of course.

[Richard Sanchez]

You don’t need to necessarily keep the AMA clips stored. If you lose those clips at any point, all you need to do is relink those AMA clips, whether individually or mounting an AMA volume, and again, modify those AMA clips to include the tape names, and you’re good to go.

Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA

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[Job Ter burg]

Pretty sure that the OP’s problem was that the transcoded Avid media was still available / visible to the system.

If you need to relink to AMA, it is best to hide the transcoded Avid mediafiles from the system, since Avid prefers to link to transcoded media over AMA-linked files.

[Bouke Vahl]

Shawn,
for Offloader and color, i don’t know. In my experience Canon stuff imported over AMA comes in a bit washed out.
When i do a regular import with input levels set to RGB it’s better to my liking.
Offloader uses QT and the avid codecs to convert to DNxHD, (or any other codec) so it’s pretty much the same as a ‘normal’ avid import.

Only advantage for you at this stage is that you can put mulitple computers at work, and they don’t have to have Avid installed.
But it’s also a very unsophisitacted way! (I made it so to be simple and highly versitile, without having to know all the specific codecs that are around. In this case, ‘if it’s qt compatible, it works..’)
So it could be done in a more efficient way.

Nevertheless, AMA relink should work. I just toyed around with canon clips with the same name, moving files, renaming them, and it seems to be quite solid if you keep them in their unique named subdirectory structure.
Also, the MediaPath in the bin reflects the original, even after a transcode. That should be something that comforts you, as you can restore that path if needed (but again, i could link to several different drives / locations where the files have moved, without a glitch. I Did not switch platforms though…)

Bouke

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