Daniel Frome
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Unfortunately Avid sucks at this type of media management.
As suggested, your best bet is to download Automatic Media Copy.
Load all your bins into that program and tell it where to copy the media. Done.Any other method is shoddy at best. Avid just doesn’t have the built-in features to make this easy. Why? I don’t know, but it is what it is.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Nice thought, but I can’t see that happening. Nothing Avid is doing speaks to people like me, one-man show with MC on a laptop and a desktop.”
That makes me so sad… I’d make a video to protest … but transcoding and exporting would just take to long :p
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[Scott Witthaus] “But outside this base (and it is a substantial market that others covet), Avid has lost traction. Small shops and indie folks don’t really consider Avid in the mix. Premiere, X, FCP7 and now (predicting) Resolve 11 pretty much own that space. Not sure Avid can compete there or want to compete there.”
Can’t argue with you there (about the lost traction in the indie space). And why would they want to use it anyway? Unless you know Avid inside out, the workflows are going to be slower, more complicated, and more constraining. Still, I remain hopeful that they will allocate some resources into this space.
Notice how every indie music producer still wants a copy of Pro Tools? Media Composer should be gunning along the same path.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA (youtube video that you will enjoy)
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I’m not part of that ‘old guard,’ in fact I’m a relatively new Avid user, but it is my NLE of choice. Having said that…
It’s true – all the newer NLEs are slowly chipping away at any Avid advantage. It’s crazy, but true: I was able to download the FCPX trial last month and complete an edit faster than with Avid, despite having no real knowledge how to use it. That was a scary wake-up call. Even still, I continue to push Avid for new features and small optimizations, because I love their trim mode.
Media Composer does indeed feel like a tack-on to ISIS. It needs several functions to make it a better piece of software for independent editors. But that’s the problem: their “base” doesn’t include many editors from this realm. They probably don’t hear much feedback from this point of view.
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[Craig Seeman] “One thing not clear. Once you buy and you’re on the $299 subscription getting future upgrades, if you terminate do you keep the upgrades you’ve reached. My guess would be yes, unlike Adobe.”
I also believe the answer is Yes. I am trying to get confirmation.
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Well…why not, right? They’ve used every other NLE in the past, switching back and forth, etc.
Avid is the slowest, FCPx is the fastest, and Ppro seems a pretty good middle ground of “I know how to use this” and “I can get it done fast.”
If someone didn’t need multi-editor sharing on an ISIS, but still needed a large talent pool to hire from, I don’t really see a better option than Premiere Pro (if Avid isn’t your schtick).
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Avid can do this too… only in the far opposite direction: it doesn`t, ever, want to delete those render files. If you `clear renders`they are kept on disk… just not available anymore. If you actually want to delete them you need to use the media tool. End of rant.
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[Peter Humble] “Where do I make this bin? Do you mean re-name my source files folder to AMA Link? And AMA link “into” that bin? I thought AMA link as you said is just a link to native camera files.”
What I mean is:
– forget about your AMA files for a moment
– make a brand new bin (apple N)
– within in that bin, AMA link to all your files -
Just make a new bin and call it “AMA files” (the name is really irrelevant, but just name it something that makes sense). Then AMA link all your files again into that bin.
Two things “should” happen:
1) Avid should be smart enough and update your sequence and bring it online.
2) The original AMA files (from your old bin) may also update themselves and “come online.” But, at this point the old files are not that important, unless you had associated some other metadata with them (sometimes that data will automatically carry to the new AMA clips, depending on which Avid version you are using).
—If all else fails and your old sequence does not relink, you can manually relink the media like this: highlight all the new “online” AMA clips. Then right-click on your sequence (it can be in a different bin, that’s OK, as long as the AMA files remain highlighted) and RELINK. Select “selected items in ALL open bins.” In the relink options, choose “Tape Name or Source File Name.”
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[Peter Humble] “When I click relink, I can’t see my drive in the ‘available drive’ drop down list.”
If you can’t see your drive, your probably referring to your system drive? If you are on a mac, the OS (by default) does not give Avid permission to use it, hence why it doesn’t show up. To Fix that, see instructions here: https://community.avid.com/forums/t/101235.aspx
Also, just so you understand Avid terminology: “ingesting” only refers to creating MXF media, either consolidating/transcoding or capturing. AMA Linking, in the Avid universe, is not ingesting.