User Manual

Relinking High Resolution Media to Your Sequence
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The high resolution clips appear in your Avid bin. An AMA link icon appears next to the
clip. To play your sequence with the high resolution clips, you need to relink the purchased
clips to your sequence. For more information, see “Relinking High Resolution Media to
Your Sequence” on page 1332.
Relinking High Resolution Media to Your Sequence
To play your sequence with the high resolution clips, you need to relink the comp clips in your
sequence to the new downloaded high resolution media.
To relink your high resolution media to your sequence:
1. Open the bin that stores all your high resolution clips for your sequence.
It is recommended that you download all your high resolution stock footage clips to the
same bin. However, you can download to multiple bins.
The media file is stored on the drive you have specified in the Media Creation > Import tab
dialog box. For more information about this setting, see “Preparing for Capture” on
page 159 and “Media Creation Settings” on page 1424.
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Make sure that the drive you specify in the Media Creation > Import tab dialog box supports the
bandwidth and has enough space to support the downloaded stock footage media.
2. Select the downloaded high resolution clips that corresponds to the comp (low resolution)
clips.
3. Open the bin that contains the sequence with the comp (low resolution) clips.
4. Select and then right-click the sequence, and select Relink Stock Footage to Sequence.
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Do not select Link to AMA File(s), the high resolution stock footage files will not relink properly.
A message displays informing you that the system will relink the selected sequence to stock
footage clips that are selected in all open bins, do you want to continue.
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If the high resolution master clip and media do not Relink to the comp clip in the sequence, make
sure the high resolution clips are selected in the bin prior to Relinking. You can also check the
timecode and duration of the clip. You might have to adjust the length of the purchased clip in
your order and perform the download again, once the adjustment is made.
5. Click Continue.
The system creates a copy of the sequence which links to the high resolution clips. The copy
is named with the original sequence name followed by .Relinked.n, where n is the number of
the duplicates created from the original sequence.
6. Play the newly created sequence that contains the high resolution media.