@Chris Tomberlin

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.

As of right now, especially if you plan to get anything out of Avid later, it appears that the "traditional Avid workflow" is the one you want to follow.

Avid seems to be very serious about working to get this better and more flexible for the end user. At the very least, when one tells the software to Transcode AND Convert, that's supposed to break all links to the original media. If that at least worked the way one would expect, that would solve a lot of issues right there. But it doesn't because apparently anything that was rendered gets included in the memory, even at that point.

In my mind, that's where Avid needs to concentrate on first. Create that "solid break" from all the original media for the end user that wants to have this happen. As I told the folks at Avid, if I want to be able to drill back 50 layers and find my original media, I can do that by simply going back to the final timeline before I made the "break." I'm hopeful that this will be something they'll be able to do fairly easily rather than going back and trying to re-design the entire database management which would be a tremendous effort.

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