Michael Phillips
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Whomever opens the bin first has read and write capabilities. Anyone else opening a bin that is already opened will only have read capabilities. No changes can be made. But they can load, play, and edit. But cannot add comments, locators and such to the clips in the bin. If they do, they will be prompted with a “save bin as” and now you are managing multiple bins.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Yes… AMA and multicamera are a no-no. There “might” be a chance of success if the codec used is native to Avid.
Are you transcoding the AMA linked clip at the master clip level? You may need to subclip first and transcode the subclips as I’ve had problems with transcode on longer clips as well.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Not that I have definate examples or documentation that I can point you to, sharing bandwidth on Thunderbolt can quickly reduce performance on devices as I believe it is only a x4 speed.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Not that I know of, perhaps one of the supporting files could swapped out, but that might be dangerous. Great feature request though.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Be sure to get at least a 7500RPM drive for the 1TB or 2TB choices as they will be faster if using them for video editing. The SSD drives are great, but still expensive as media drives due to their price to storage ratio – in the future they will be great. Right now the best use for those is for the OS drive – boot up, and software start-up and such is lightening fast. But if you have a lot of applications and such, you can quickly fill up 256GB. Can the system offer 2x 2TB 7500RPM drives that you can strip for speed and capacity.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Yeah, kinda sounded like there was a corrupt clip in there or perhaps it is AMA linked to longer clips. I find the beach ball on AMA to H.264 clips longer than 20 minutes to be brutal.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Try cutting that entire sequence into another sequence just for a test. Perhaps there is something “funky” with the one you’re working on.
Also, does the beachball appear everytime regardless of where the edit is made (first half of sequence, second half, etc.) as there may be a corrupt file in the sequence somewhere.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Michael already referenced the issue with the EDL. The issue with using 30 year old technology (CMX EDL) and new workflows. The EDL specifies that a source can not have more than 8 characters and no more than 254 sources total, and no more than 999 events. Well that doesn’t really work in the new millennium. The File_16 and File_32 templates were created to support newer workflows while still available as an EDL. The File_16 was designed for RED to allow the full 16 characters of the filename to be used as source. File_32 for formats that use more than 16 such as Arri Alexa, SI2K, etc. The number of sources was changed to be unlimited since every clips was now its own source, and the limitation as to the number of events was removed.
FCP always stuck to the EDL specification while every other manufacturer quickly adopted the new EDL format. So FCP still has the 8 character limit which is why you see the ALE contain the 8 character file truncation when exporting from RXC Pro to Avid. I asked RED they include that so MC could track both methods of source allowing one to go to FCP or other third parties.
AMA has its own extraction of metadata from the RED SDK – I can’t recall whether it does the 8 character representation or not – I don’t think it does – but just use the File_16 template for all workflows not involving FCP.
AMA also requires that a transcode be done before you can export an AAF file – which is a bit stupid, and is also the reason why you can’t send sequence to EDL Manager as it uses AAF to communicate between the two applications. Opening the bin directly from EDL Manager skips that communication protocol.
But, you can check “use edit protocol” on the AAF settings on export and it will allow you to export an AAF. Edit Protocol is a simplified version of the composition, closer to an EDL than the full metadata of everything that goes into an AAF file, but for what Resolve and many other applications support, it works fine.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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What is the recorder that is being used to make the file based version of the tape? It appears as though the manufacturer has repurchased a MOB ID in the file that trumps the filename as far as Avid is concerned.
Can you drop one master clip at a time into the console window and copy/paste that back for me to look at? Keep them separate…
Thanks –
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Considering the current limitations of MC’s ability to relink between Source File and Tape for R3D spanned files, the workflow you trying to do make sense. Hopefully they will fix that in an upcoming release as it’s been a known issue for a while now.
The RCX Pro workflow for this would be conform the EDL in RCX and correct each segment in RCX for exposure and other needs before rendering out the high rez files.
Michael
Michael Phillips