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3954_rjsworkflowguide022012.pdf.zip
This should help you. It’s a workflow guide I made primarily for working with XDCAM discs. The only difference is, if you mount your AMA volumes like I mentioned earlier, you’ll have a bin populated with your AMA clips. Highlight those AMA clips in one bin, and highlight the sequence in it’s own bin and right-click “relink” on the sequence.
When the relink dialogue box opens, click on “Selected itms in ALL open bins” and also enable “Allow relinking of imported/AMA clips by Source File name” This should relink the sequence.
Once that’s done, I’d highly recommend you transcode. The Avid always plays nicer with MXF media.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Since those files are default XDCAM EX naming conventions, did they add any custom metadata to the clips? What I’m getting at is, if you need to relink those specific master clips, that’s a little tougher. Otherwise, you can just remount the AMA volumes by going to File > Link to AMA Volume and point it to the folder containing the BPAV folder. You’ll have do this for each individual as I can see there is a few.
Where these clips used in a sequence? If that is the case, you’ll have to relink that sequence, which I can explain but otherwise, you should be good to go.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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If you want your own system to be able to rebuild the databases, you can rename the to match your systems name. So if your system is ZEdit_01 and therefore your media files are in ZEdit_01.1, and media is stored in ZEdit_02.1, you can change that folder to ZEdit_01.2 (or whatever number is available) and then your system will be rebuild that media database. Keep on eye on your file counts. Most people say 5000 is the maximum, but I try to keep my media folders each under 2000 files.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Create a 1080 59.94i project, digitize your HDV. Open the bin with the captured HDV footage from your 23.976 project. If you captured at 30i, then do not transcode to 23.976. You will lose your ability to track back and upres. Keep your footage as 30i, Avid will apply a time warp filter to adjust the frame rate. When you are ready to upres, sub sequence out the 30i material and upres that back in the 1080 59.94i project, and drop it back into the mastering sequence. Of course, if your plan is to capture at hi-res, then there will be no upres process, but I still would leave it be and let the Avid adjust the frame rate in the timeline. It does a surprisingly good job considering the math involved.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Why not try going out of the Avid, into Finder or Windows Explorer on that level. Search the bin name, it’ll be an avb file.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Also Eric,
Since I noticed your based in Los Angeles, if you’re about to go into an XDCAM edit, you might want to contact Fotokem. I don’t actually work for Fotokem, but the show I’m working on is renting systems from them, and they gave us this ingest system with a proprietary ingest software that allows us to bring in either the proxy or the proxy and the full res XDCAM clip, rewraps it as MXF media, and assigns it a reelname. You can bring in two XDCAM discs at one time without tying up your Avid transcoding. Seriously a great system.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I had a similar issue recently, where I was using autosync to marry my multitrack audio to my cameras, as I had two field recorders. In any event, Camera A autosynced to Audio Recorder A, Camera B autosynced to Audio Recorder B. I was able to autosync, but once I took those autosynced subclips and attempted to multigroup, I got that obnoxious “Auto_Comp_No_Sync” error. The only solution I could find was to multigroup the master clips, rather than the autosynced clips. It means I’ll have to manually match multitrack audio for my editors if they need it later. Boo.
Nick, since you mentioned adding a source, where you autosyncing imported clips such as DSLR or GoPro? My video sources were XDCAM (consolidated Mpeg-4 proxies) with a tape name added, and likewise the metadata of the audio recorder assigns it a tape name within the Avid. Strange indeed.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Uncheck enable.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Go into your AMA settings and turn off AMA. Restart your Avid. When it boots back up, you’ll get the option for import P2 and import XDCAM.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I usually autosync the clips first, and then multigroup them. On my current show, we’re running a multitrack recorder with mixdowns on channels 1 and 2, and feeding that mixdown to channels 1 & 2 on our A cam.
In my case, the timecode isn’t very accurate, so I’m syncing by audio phase. If your timecode sync is good, then you can autosync by source timecode. In my case, I go down the timeline, matching back to the clips, adding an in point and using autosync by in point. If you’re using MC 5 or newer, there’s an option to include a range of tracks. In this case, I only give the editors the mixdown tracks, which is all they need about 90% of the time. If they need to get the isos, they can match back into them and pull them out, but it makes the tracks easier to work with than have 8 tracks of audio attached to them.
Autosync will take your audio master clip, and your video master clip and create a new sublcip, with “.sync” appended. You can group or multigroup that sublcip like normal after that.
Richard Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
