Dragos
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The two files definitely have unique names so I’m not sure what happened. I’ve moved on and just imported the files rather than link via AMA. When I imported it kept the unique names. Not sure what was happening with AMA, but I had to keep the project rolling.
Thanks for your help.
Dragzz
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I made this video to show you exactly what is happening. I created a brand new project and it’s still doing this.
https://creativeforce.tv/AMA_issue.mov
The footage was shot on HD Panasonic cameras that were tape-based. They used a box on the top of the camera that converted the digital info to mxf files.
Dragzz
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It’s the actual file name.
As an example. I’ve already linked to a file named “Z1645001” and started editing that clip. Then, when I go to import another file that was shot later that day on another memory card that is named “Z1646001” it imports the other file (Z1645011) even though that is not the file I selected. Then when I delete that incorrect file from my bin it makes the file go off-line in the other bin and I have to relink back to the correct file. (Hope you’re able to follow that. It’s quite strange what’s going on.)
For whatever reason it appears that Avid is getting confused with the last 4 digits of the file name. I’m tempted to go through and rename all of my files with unique text names before linking via AMA, however, since this was a three camera shoot with 5 different modules that range from 15 to 30 minutes that would be quite a bit of work. I don’t know if I’m expecting to much from AMA or what. Each file has a unique numerical name so there is no reason it should import a different file than what I select.
Dragzz
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LOL… well I guess that was definitely a “noob” mistake. Thanks for the quick reply.
Dragzz
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Sorry if I wasn’t clear. On video track 1 I have the background. On the next video track is the host that I have keyed out. It is multiple clips across the length of the timeline. I am able to select all of the clips and then double click on the keyed effect that I have saved. This applies the key to all host clips across the timeline. However, I then want to apply color correction to that keyed you host. I cannot apply it to the track above since that will affect the background.
So far, they only way I can apply the color correction is to double click on each individual keyed host clip to expand it and then drag and drop the color correction. There is no way I know of to expand all of the clips at one time, so I need to expand one, apply the effect then collapse it. Then I double click on the next clip, expand it, apply color correction and so on. I was hoping there was some way to apply color correction to all of the keyed clips without having to expand each of them one at a time.
Dragzz
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Disregard my post. For anyone interested though, the best way I’ve found to do this is to simply create the underlined text in another program and then just copy and paste it into AE. The formatting holds.
Dragzz
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Just what I needed. Thanks.
Dragzz
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I’ve tried this but it hangs on import. I wasn’t sure how to force the file in the bin to go off-line so I simply selected the file and tried to batch import and overwrite, but it didn’t work. Can you tell me how I make it go off-line so I can try again. These are not linked AMA files. They are AE exports of QT animation files.
Thanks.
Dragzz
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Awesome. I’d done this in FCP, but I’m a recent convert to Avid. (*although I did use Avid like ten years ago!)
Thanks!
Dragzz
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Tried everything. Still will not relink. I can see the files in the folders but they just won’t connect. Wish there was an option to force connect instead of having avid do the search and come up with nothing…
Dragzz