User Manual

The Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow
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There are two ways of browsing and editing this media:
• Manually browse through the media on the third-party device, and link to selected media to
create master clips in your bin, or
• Move all the media from the third-party device to an Avid dynamic media folder where you
have set up an automated process to create the master clips.
Typical media management functions (e.g. deletes, transcodes, consolidates) apply to all
AMA-linked clips in the same robust manner as they do for managed MXF Avid-compliant
OPAtom files. All media, whether captures, imported or linked by AMA, will be displayed in a
single window in the Media Tool.
AMA and dynamic media folders are the quickest method by which you can automate the
acquisition of footage, and significantly enhance your production workflow when working with
media in popular digital formats.
With the use of dynamic media folders, you can organize your files and assign automated actions
to a “watched” folder system. These actions run in the background, allowing you to keep
working while files are being ingested into the application. The actions include copy, consolidate
and transcode—see “Creating Dynamic Media Folders” on page 381.
The illustration below shows how you can automate the acquisition of file-based media in the
background so that you can continue editing your sequence without interruption.
Before you begin editing, set up media service profiles to run automated media acquisition
actions on the specific drives/folders where the original media is located. Any files placed in
these folders will be processed and managed in the background.