[Dan Brother]

Pat,
Just letting you know that I tried your suggestion. I moved all the media offline and tried to relink but I still had no luck. I appreciate your feedback though.
Thanks

[Dan Brother]

Michael,
I tried your suggestion of hiding the folder by adding xx to the front of it, but MC still saw the clips without a problem. Weird. I didn’t think that was possible.
So I tried your alternate suggestion of “relinking to selected” and this works. Not the perfect solution, but sure saves time over re-cutting the clips.
Thanks!

[Dan Brother]

Thanks Michael.

I had to do a workaround to get a high rez cut out. But will try your method as soon as I can.
But to answer your question…

I did it in MC. I input through the source browser and and was linked through AMA to the shoot drives.
Then I transcoded the media to the edit drive (bigger/faster) as proxies. Raster Dimensions set to Source 1/4, Target Resolution is DNxHR LB MXF, Linked Source Scaling Quality set to Half (Best Quality).

Once everything was transcoded, I took the proxies (with .new extension) and moved them separate bins based on subject matter while keeping the original AMA bins. Then did a rough cut…and tried to relink to my shoot drives so I could then consolidate the media at high rez. Trouble is…it won’t relink back to my shoot drives.

So the workaround was to go back to my AMA clips and re-cut the sequence with those clips so I could consolidate.

Luckily, this project is 60 sec spots, so not a disaster, but for longer format stuff, this will be horribly time consuming.

[Dan Brother]

Thanks Shane. By Rec709, I’m assuming you’re referring to the YCbCR 709 setting. Correct?

And while we’re at it, is there a significant advantage to ingesting into a 4K project and then editing in HD?
OR…should I just start the project in HD (in which case Frame Flex still works)? I’ve done it both ways and haven’t really come to a definite conclusion.

[Dan Brother]

Yes, I’m seeing that. I just wanted to confirm that there is not something I’m not seeing (or not thinking of), or maybe some hidden setting somewhere before spending several days ingesting.

It all seems to work just fine the way I’m planning on doing it, but thought it would be best to confirm with an expert. Thanks!

[Dan Brother]

Hi Michael. Thanks for the post.

I am linking through the source browser, then consolidating into the Avid so our client can view full-res clips in the edit session. For example, the source clips are XAVC 4K intra VBR Class 300 – 4096X2160, and after consolidating into the Avid, they remain the same on both fronts.

[Dan Brother]

Thank you!!

[Dan Brother]

Perfect. Thank you for taking the time to help. You’re a lifesaver.

Dan

[Dan Brother]

Thank you very much for your quick response, Michael! It was exactly what I needed.

Dan

[Dan Brother]

HI Shane. I appreciate your help. I just got off with Avid support again and this time they tell me it’s a known bug in 8.5 and that it’s already been fixed…but obviously the patch won’t be available until the next realease of 8.5.