Media Creation weirdness and then some...

[Eric Santiago]

We installed Avid MC 6.0.3 on a Retina 10.8.1 MBP.
Using a Sonnet Echo Express Pro expansion chassis along with a Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro SSD PCI card (holds two SSDs) we ran into a weird problem during tests.
First off I copied some R3Ds in full folder structure at the root of the Tempo PCI card.
Then read the files from Avid as AMA.
Everything looked fine in Avid MC during tests.
Then I decided to check the Media Creation option.
I shut off the System and Network volumes options for drive used and noticed the Tempo card shows up in the drive options.
I didn't bother to check if they actually work at first.
Then when I decided to create a transition I got that error that there are no drives to render too.
And it tried to force itself onto the system drive.
The Tempo SSD disappeared from the Media Creation option at this point.
After playing around with all that, I decided to delete everything and start from scratch.
It seems the AMA was playing tricks on that Tempo SSD volume and treated it like a mounted discs similiar to XDCAM discs back in the day.
Now that I figured that I thought I was golden until I tried to convert R3Ds from RCXPro.
The export option would stop exporting at first frame when trying to use that Tempo SSD volume.
I keep thinking drive perms but went through that a few too many times and still no go.
Seems like long question so hopefully someone here can share some tips and ideas to get around this problem.

Thanks in advance

 

[MichaelP]

You might want to ask in another forum as well as it sounds more like an OS to drive issue than MC. Try typing "alldrives" and hit return into the console to see if it makes MC see the SSD drive. It may be seeing it as a network drive for whatever reason. Same for Finder preferences - check connected servers. I had a RAID once that needed that checked for the OS to see it.

Michael

 

[Eric Santiago]

You might want to ask in another forum as well as it sounds more like an OS to drive issue than MC. Try typing "alldrives" and hit return into the console to see if it makes MC see the SSD drive. It may be seeing it as a network drive for whatever reason. Same for Finder preferences - check connected servers. I had a RAID once that needed that checked for the OS to see it.

Michael

Thanks Michael.
I ran into a new problem basically stopping me from continuing.
Avid sent me an MC 6.0.3.1 update to test for another issue I have with both MC and Symphony.
I will try again with this new update on the Retina.
I deleted everything of that Tempo SSD card so I cant start from scratch.

 

[Eric Santiago]

Okay everything looks good now.
I hope it was the update from Avid.
FYI, even though Avid sends you the PACE drivers for your dongle, during first time start-up you will get an error asking to visit the PACE url for driver update.
A bit annoying considering most of our Avids do not connect to the internet for other reasons.

I honestly dont know why the Media Creation didnt work at first.
I thought it was maybe the RED plugin since Avid does an Auto AMA import of all mounted MAGs.
And my Tempo originally had R3D folders and it too was mounting same as the REDMAGs.

It works nows crossing fingers that it works later

 

[MichaelP]

v6.5 does bring a nice small feature of disabling AMA AutoMount while still keeping AMA itself enabled.

Michael