Michael Phillips
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Referring to Pat’s comment about native RED R3D files not being able to be consolidated… while true, it is a shame that Avid has not updated its ability to do so as the SDK used in the AMA plug-in certainly allows for R3D files to be truncated to what is used + handles as new R3D files.
Michael
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When using AutoSync, there is no blank media as part of the video or audio tracks as it always makes a subclip that is the shortest span common to both (unlike a group clip).
Certainly sharing one V+A camera original with audio to look into would help get to the bottom of the issue.
Michael
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Bouke quickly added a “remove path” function to ALEChange as you can see here:
My ALE only has one event, but it would work for that entire column.
Before:
After:
Michael
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Some very quick media compatibility testing… Set Media Creation to OP1a.
- V+A clips synced in DaVinci Resolve
- Delivered as MXF OP1a/DNxHD LB
The resulting OP1a file plays fine in PPro, VLC, Resolve, and MC when AMA linked. Ideally, you would just place these files in the Avid MediaFiles folder as has always been the practice with native OPAtom files but be aware:
You cannot place these directly in the: Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 folder structure.
When Media Composer creates these files, they go into a: Avid MediaFiles/UME/1 folder structure.So I placed the OP1a file as created into the UME folder structure. I launched Media Composer, opened the Avid MediaTool, and dragged the clip to my bin. I scroll to look at the metadata and I notice that there is no metadata in TAPE (expected) but SOURCE FILE says “Offline File”:
But when creating an EDL, the info is there:
Exporting an AAF to Davinci Resolve using a sequence from that clip imported fine and linked to the media in that UME folder (both applications on the same laptop) and the filename/REEL was present.
Importing the same AAF into Premiere Pro also worked, just needed to the media relink via the “locate media” command.
But trying to merge an ALE didn’t work of course since the clip in the bin had no values in either Tape or Source File:
I will say that I tried importing the MMOB file and it worked the same way from UME folder, but in one test I could not play the media at with a bunch of errors popping up. When I have more time, I may look into that a little deeper.
Michael
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That’s true – I haven’t done a lot of testing with OP1a yet. I remember stumbling on the fact that the RED AMA plug-in supported AMA linking to OPAtom files since that was what the camera recorded for DNxHD/R.
Michael
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Saw your email and the same issue here…
Regarding 24p.com… I lost that domain due to my provider sucking at alerting me that my 5-year term was ending. It got picked up by another payment processor company but they were nice enough to let my emails forward to my new adress which is the same but ending in 24p.io
I may try to rehost all the blogs one day… I have the text but lost all the images so there is work to be done.
That being said, there was no blog on this particular workflow with ALE and I have asked Da Vinci for a few years now to create a separate metadata column for audio filename.
I did work with Bouke on some of his updates to ALEChange which allows for some nice ALE editing, merging, and things like and certainly work checking out.
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/alechange/It’s too bad that Avid’s new “bulk edit” is so limiting…
As far as PPro, it will play the OPatom files in a MediaFile folder just fine – but may need an AAF to connect the tracks to each other. I need to do a little testing.
Michael
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Then I would open a support case with Avid on this one.
Michael
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Test 1: edit source video clip into its own timeline. Does it play all the way through?
Test 2. edit audio source clip into its own timeline. Does it play all the way through?If yes to both, it’s only when these two clips are combined into a single timeline and both are playing at the same time that you get no video and only audio?
Michael
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The only other way to do it is to:
- AutoSequence the video source clip. This creates a sequence with the same timecode as the source video.
- Edit your audio to be in sync
You can stop here and use sequences as the source, but that you lose some functionality such as sync break indicators and ease of use as you have to drag and drop sequences into a source monitor, not double click.
If you want to regain that functionality, with the sequence still in the record monitor:
- Mark In and Out so that the all tracks have media (no Avid timeline black between the marks on any track)
- Subclip that range out into a bin
- Rename as needed
- Select sequence(s) and select AutoSync
- Results in a subclip that is in sync and will behave like other source clips – basically the same end result as AutoSync.
Neither of these guarantee playback of the original sources clips won’t play to start with. You may want to transcode to an Avid friendly native format like DNxHD/HR first and ensure your drives and drive connection are fast enough to support whichever data rate you are creating.
Michael
