User Manual

Using AMA Plug-Ins
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5. Double-click AMA.
The AMA Settings dialog box appears.
6. Click the Quality tab.
7. Click the appropriate resolution for your video and audio in the AMA Link Preference
section, and click OK.
8. Insert the XDCAM disk in the XDCAM device.
9. Select Bin Selection options from the Bins tab.
For information on bin selection options, see “Linking Media with AMA” on page 388.
10. Select File > Link to AMA Volume.
The Browse for Folder dialog box opens.
11. Navigate to the XDCAM clips, and then click OK.
The clips appear in the bin or bins depending on the bin options you selected. A link icon
appears next to the clips.
12. Edit the sequence.
13. Right-click the bin and select Modify AMA Resolutions to relink your low-resolution to
high-resolution media.
14. To consolidate your media, see “Consolidating Multiple Resolution Media” on page 402.
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When you consolidate, if you want to keep your AMA clips linked to the original source, select
the option “Keep Master clips linked to media on the original drive,” in the Copying Media Files
dialog box.
15. Click the Highest Quality for your video and audio and click OK.
The highest quality clips appear in the bin along with the low resolution (most compressed)
clips. A link icon appears next to the clips.
If the system cannot find the corresponding low-resolution clip, it might be because you
inserted the wrong XDCAM disk. If you insert the wrong disk, the system displays a
message that informs you to insert the correct disk. If you used Sony’s PDZ-1 software and
provided a disk name in the User Disc ID field, the system message displays the disk label
name. If you did not use the PDZ-1 software, the system asks you to insert the disk
containing the (low-resolution) clip selected in the bin.
16. Remove the XDCAM disk.
Spanned clips are clips that extend from one card to another. Avid supports working with
spanned XDCAM EX clips in your Avid editing application.
For more information about spanned clips, see “Spanned Clips” on page 392.