can’t find “Link to AMA Volume”

[Michael Hancock]

[Daniel Schultz] “I still have a hard time believing there’s not an easy way to get regular ol’ XDCAM footage into Avid without going to a 3rd party situation.”

There is. You AMA link it and either consolidate or transcode. Something is amiss on your system since it’s not working.

When you try to AMA link to the your XDCam footage, what is the entire file path on the drive? Any illegal character in the file path will cause it to error our (so no special characters like !@#$%^&*(/).

Also, when you try to AMA link and it doesn’t work open your console (Ctrl+6 or Cmd+6) and you should see an error that may give you more details. What does that error say?

When you AMA link, don’t rely on “Autodetect” in the settings. It doesn’t work half the time. You need to select the XDCam option – then try to AMA the files in.

XDCam works great with Avid. It’s the gremlin in your system that’s causing issues, but I’m not sure what that gremlin is.

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Michael Hancock
Editor