Kyra Coffie
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You seem to be very familiar with AutoSync and up to now, I haven’t really had a use for it because I rarely (if ever) work with external audio.
What do you find as the benefits of AutoSync and what is the ideal situation for AutoSync? I read up on it in the Avid manual but it doesn’t seem to be very useful unless the audio and video are exactly the same length. I know you can match frame to the original clip but I am a bit lazy (just being truthful) and if I ever have a choice I prefer to click on one or two clips and have all of my footage as opposed to clicking on 15 AutoSynced clips. (I’m incredibly partial to multigroups or putting everything into a sequence so I have fewer things to sift through.)
Any insight you can provide would be awesome!
Kyra
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Jack,
I don’t know anything about this type of media but I do know a little about AMA so I might be able to help you. You mentioned that the clips are named “PIX_001_001” but they are in ascending order, correct? Meaning the next clip is PIX_001_002? Also, do you have a picture of the file structure showing exactly what it looks like when you mount the drives?
Finally, I wrote a book about Avid and one of my chapters lightly touches upon AMA and on my website is a sample chapter that good for you is that particular chapter. Maybe you can check it out to see if it can help you while I do some research on my end once you reply?
Kyra
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Adam,
If I understand you correctly, you can group all of the clips together using Multigroup but it can be very time consuming. A multigroup would take all of your clips from your sequence and put them into one long clip that would have the separate cameras and the external audio all synced together. I’ve done it before but as I said earlier, it is time consuming.
If you want, I can send you an offline email about the process. Email me at Kyra@AvidAsstEditor.com if your are interested cause it could be a long email! Either way, good luck!
Kyra