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Limitations and Known Issues
AMA (Avid Media Access)
➤ Bug Number: . AMA and XDCAM Optical Disks: When accessing media through Avid
Media Access (AMA), system response time can be affected due to the high latency of the
XDCAM optical disk. This can affect media access response time while linking, playing
back, and scrubbing. When you create sequences with multiple effects or layered tracks,
Avid suggests that you consolidate the media to a local drive instead of working directly
from the optical disk to avoid dropped frames and to avoid slow response time.
➤ Bug Number: . Link to AMA File(s): This menu choice has been created to be used with
future third-party AMA file based media plug-ins. To see the available AMA plug-ins
available for your Avid editing applications, go to www.avid.com/ama/. This option will be
grayed out if you do not have the appropriate plug-in installed on your system.
➤ Bug Number: . AMA and additional XDCAM Metadata columns: Avid supports new
XDCAM ID and Data metadata which displays in the Avid bin columns. The metadata is
available from the DISCMETA.XML file. Additional metadata information has also been
added when using the Sony PDZ-1 workflow. Depending on the fields you enter information
to in Sony's browsing software and on the options you choose in AMA, the metadata
information displays in Avid bin columns and as the volume or bin name.
➤ Bug Number: . AMA and JVC: JVC SDHC volumes are not automatically detected and
mounted by AMA. Sony's AMA XDCAM-EX plug-in currently detects Sony's SxS folder
structure, but does not yet detect the JVC SDHC folder structure. A workaround is to use the
“File > Link to AMA Volume(s)” menu option and then navigate to the
/PRIVATE/JVC/BPAV folder on the SDHC card.
Avid is working with Sony to allow for the AMA XDCAM EX plug-in to automatically
detect this folder structure.
➤ Bug Number: . At this time, the Dynamic Relink option is not available with AMA clips.
➤ Bug Number: UDevC00119182. When you use the AMA method, additional metadata
column headings disappear when you use custom bin views. There are different scenarios
when this issue might occur.
They include: When you use the AMA method to link to media and then switch back to an
already existing custom bin view created before using the AMA feature, the additional
metadata columns disappear. We've also seen a similar situation if you create a P2 bin and
link with AMA. Create a customize bin view. All default columns and additional metadata