[Glenn Sakatch]

In your settings tab, click on the Hamburger icon (Grey box on Black box on Grey box)

In there you can turn on different “settings” for settings.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

So the pop up that said, you have changed your configuration. Changes will occur after you restart the program didn’t help you realize the a restart was necessary?

I love how you have decided to read the manual AFTER the program proves its worth to you.

How dare the program not do things the way you want them done!

I guess it will be Resolves loss.

I don’t like the I’m always having to right click to call up menus. I want it to be a middle click WHY DON’T THEY FIX THIS!!!!

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

No, that is the wrong relink method. Michael was suggesting you “relink by selected”

Under the area you are describing is another check box. Relink by selected media in all open bins.

You do not want to relink by the drive/database information, because the media you want to relink to (original r3ds) is not part of the database system. That is for mxf created media.

Have your sequence in one bin, and your r3ds in another bin
select all the r3ds. Right click on your sequence and select the “selected media in all open bins” You are telling avid to relink this sequence to all the media you have selected in any other bin that is currently open. (the selected r3ds)

From here you will have to play with the link by options…tape name, clip name, etc.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

The drive letter switch will certainly work from pc to pc, but not from mac to pc, as the macs don’t have drive letters.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

you might have some corrupt media. I know you said you are working AMA, but is there some other inported media also associated with the project? perhaps some renders that came over from the other Version?

Move our AvidMedia Files/MXf/1 folder up a level so that avid isn’t scanning it, and see if the problem persists. Perhaps there is some corruption going on in that folder.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Can we get a screenshot of your finder/drive structure

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’m not sure what they think they are achieving by getting you to do the extra relink. (They aren’t achieving anything as far as im concerned…except an extra bin of clips in your project) The clips in your project are either pointing to DNX media or raw media, having 3 versions of the clips is a waste. As I said, I do like keeping the original link files around, as it does help at the end with the relink. (Basically stops you from having to ama again at the end…not a deal buster, but certainly helps)

Going from Mac to PC will be a bit of a problem anyway. ( I just completed a 3 hour doc series that was like this) The ama links from one to the other are next to useless, as you can’t replicate the drive structure across platforms. The “other” system will have to build their own ama links no matter what. One systems reads the original files coming from Volumes/Drive1…the other will see G:\Drive1. There is no way in Avid to easily say “substitute the word Volumes for the letter G. (or whatever the case may be) The “relink to ama files” button will basically ask you to identify each file, one at a time. Try doing that with 72 tb of clips

To get around this, I had to alt drag all my clips into new ama bins.
(this automatically updated the original ama links with the new path)

As for AMA itself, there aren’t too many people that will tell you they never have issues with it. It is still a bit flakey. Sometimes it just works….sometimes you struggle to relink to items you have previously linked to. I do find the Alt drag method works pretty good when the other method starts to fail.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I haven’t used Sonic DVD for quite a while, but I have used reference movies with tmpeg dvd authoring software. If you really want to know if you can use a reference quicktime movie to make a dvd…just give it a go. A 5 second test will probably answer you question pretty easily.

If Sonic opens the movie, and plays the sound properly, I would say it works.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’m a bit confused with some of your process. Personally, I would ama link your shots, transcode them to dnx36 and start editing with those transcodes.
Take your original AMA clips and put them in a folder, tucked away for the end of the project, when you want to relink your sequence back to your raw media. There is no need to relink your 36 dnx media back to your original ama clips.

As for the c300, check that your ama link settings are not set to auto. Telling Avid the specific type of ama you are trying to do may help.

If not, open your c300 clips in explorer and alt drag the containing folder to an open bin in avid. This is another way to do ama linking. Haven’t worked with c300 for a while, so I’m not positive what level of the folder structure you want to alt drag over, but with a bit of trial and error, you might have some success. Note the alt drag method (for me) will every now and then try to import instead of ama link, if I release my alt button and the mouse button in the wrong order. If Avid says “creating media” cancel the process and try again.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

is your video track muted?
is there a layer above your video track you want to see?
Can you match frame a clip on your video track and get it to show up on the source side?

Glenn