In Avid Media Composer v5.5, the AMA plugins are no longer bundled (as they were with earlier versions). The reasoning for this is that these plugins are developed by respective device manufacturers, who are by this route free to bugfix/update their plugins independently of Avid MC releases. So I had a download-spree, from http://www.avid.com/US/products/Avid-Media-Access/plug-ins, chosing the following:
- MXF
- QT
- In practice only a guide (.pdf), since (only) this particular AMA is included with MC 5.5, as indeed shown at http://esd.avid.com/ProductInformation.aspx?id=49
- RED
- Sony XDCAM
They are reasonably small, about 1MB for Windows and 10 MB for Mac (very general round figures).