- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb8LqUY1q34
- AMA and Media Management – Media Composer Cutting Edge
- Suppose you start with a Project having a Sequence of clips from a Bin, these clips directly linked (via AMA) to original media-recordings in a camera’s native format.
- “There are still going to be times when you want to integrate that media in your local or shared AVid storage”.
- This can be done easily via the Consolidate and Transcode features:
- Sequence: RightClick > Consolidate/Transcode
- Consolidate/Transcode:
- I THINK BUT UNSURE:
- Select Consolidate if you just want the camera’s native format re-wrapped in MXF
- Select Transcode if you want it transcoded e.g. into DNxHD
- In both cases, you end up with a new sequence, of clips which are now:
- On the Avid Media storage (MXF). Better performance (?), better media management (by Avid) and ability to do some things that AMA can’t, such as multi-camera.
- Only the subsets (of original footage) needed by the sequence (plus handles). Saves disk space.
- Settings:
- “Video and audio on same drive”: YES
- Select required target drive
- Define Handle Length (e.g. two seconds’ worth of frames).
- (Implies that Consolidate will only ingest the subsets of clips actually referenced in the Sequence)
- “Create new sequence”: YES
- “Delete original media files when done”: NO
- “Skip media files already open on the target drive”: YES
- (Thinks: what if they already exist on some other drive (that’s connected) ?)
- “Relink selected clips to target drive before skipping”: YES
- Click “go-button” (labelled Consolidate or Transcode).
- If at any subsequent stage you want to re-edit:
- Re-mount the original camera volumes (e.g. disk drive/drives).
- Re-link your sequence to them (via AMA ?).
- {Subsequently, presumably re- Consolidate or Transcode }
- {Presumably if all you did was add something, the only action performed will be the Consolidate/Transcode of that very addition}
- {What if existing clips are trimmed (up or down) in the sequence? Will the corresponding existing Consolidate/Transcode product be appended/reduced/replaced as necessary (is AVid “clever” about all this? Or will a new one co-exist alongside the old one (which then just wastes space) ? }
- {Does an Avid-managed file act like an object, i.e. exists so long as something (bin or sequence) points at it, otherwise is deleted by some “garbage collection” ?}
- ReLink is also handy for Offline-Online conversion. Example:
- A remote cameraman delivers (e.g. via DigiDelivery) a set of XDCAM-HD Proxies.
- Editor receives proxies and Imports them into Avid.
- Some time later the Online files arrive (e.g. by physical delivery of disks).
- Avid’s ReLink function matches the offline proxy sequence, frame-for-frame, with the newly-avaiable HD footage.
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