Re: A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher

"She received an error to the effect of "Creating an AAF using anything other than 'Link To' is not permitted with ProRes files." The original project included ProRes files from story that was originally delivered in Final Cut Pro, but the error didn't make sense because everything had been transcoded over to DNxHD and she was creating the AAF from the newly consolidated timeline."

If the Avid guys need independent verification of this issue, I can provide it. We've been gradually wading into the Avid waters as well and have come across this exact problem. I thought perhaps I was missing something; good to know I wasn't losing my mind. Basically what I've learned it that AMA is almost useless if you need to get anything out of Avid later. It would seem transcoding is the only way to work with Avid and is required for the "legendary" media management.

Chris Tomberlin
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