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Kevin,

Your simple solution for AMA relink worked beautifully – thank you. However, I’m still faced with the problem of relinking MXF files that were linked to another drive at another editing location(as were the AMA files), and will now not relink to the same media on my present drive. I’ve tried the same method you described for AMA files(which in this case was reimporting), but that doesn’t work. The Avid phone tech support guys haven’t been able to come up with a solution. Do you have any suggestions?

By the way, are you of Czech heritage by any chance?

Thanks,

Larry Jacobs

Your problems with AMA linking have been around pretty much since AMA was first introduced...

At a results, I don't use AMA for any complicated and/or lengthy edit project  (...AMA is OK for simiple and short editing projects).  The old school approach of converting to a common editing codec then edit is far more reliable.  Maybe in the next coupe of releases AMA may have worked out the bugs...until then, I avoid AMA for complicated projects.  And the idea of a "solid AMA workflow" is pretty much an oxymoron....

Joe

Are these Avid MXF MediaFiles?  if that's the case, they just have to be dropped into an Avid MediaFiles > MXF numbered folder.

So! After many disheartening tries of trying to relink files, I found a method that worked for me.  In my bin, I select all of the files that are offline, right click, click re-link, point to the first file and Avid actually automatically went down the list and relinked all of the files on it's on!  I didn't think it would work at first, but it did.  

Now usually I would just go to Link to AMA volumn when files would go offline, but this wouldn't work whenever I would move media from one drive to another, it would not reconnect clips in my sequences to my original AMA links, it would make new ones that would not speak to the old bin files.  

So if you need to relink, provided all of the files in the folder are the same ones in your bin, which luckily, I've got an "Original Root Structure" bin in my avid project so that all of my files in my bins come from there, I can just relink these original root structures and voila!