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CONFIRMING QUICKTIME AMA SUPPORT

What AMA Plugins do I have?

The QuickTime AMA Plugin works with Avid Media Composer 5 / Symphony 5 /

NewsCutter 9. To see what AMA Plugins are installed, go to the Console (TOOLS >

CONSOLE) and type in AMA_ListPlugins. The following report appears in the console.

ama_listplugins

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PLUGIN NAME VENDOR NAME VERSION

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MSP_IkegamiGFCamMXF Avid Technology, Inc. Version 3.1

MXF Plug-in Avid Technology, Inc. Version 1.0

MSP_PanasonicP2MXF Avid Technology, Inc. Version 2.0

MSP_SonyXDCAM Avid Technology, Inc. Version 2.0

MSP_SonyXDCAMEXMP4 Sony Corporation Version 1.3003

MVP_IkegamiGFCam Avid Technology, Inc. Version 3.1

MVP_MSP_SonyXDCAM Avid Technology, Inc. Version 3.0

MVP_PanasonicP2 Avid Technology, Inc. Version 2.0

MVP_SonyXDCAMEX Sony Corporation Version 1.3003

MXF Plug-in Avid Technology, Inc. Version 1.0

MVP_MSP_QuickTime Avid Technology, Inc. Version 1.0

RED R3D Plug-In (R3DSDK v3.1) Avid Technology, Inc. Version 1.0

For Quicktime AMA, the line you want to see is MVP_MSP_QUICKTIME. This indicates the

QuickTime AMA Plugin (version 1.0 in this case) is present.

What if QuickTime AMA linking doesn’t work?

If your Avid editing system runs into a problem when trying to link clips, it writes to an

error log file that might be useful in trying to figure out what went wrong. The log is

named AMALoggerMM_DD_YY.log (such as AMALogger02_23_10.log) and can be found

in the following directories:

PC: DRIVE:\USERS\PUBLIC\DOCUMENTS\AVID MEDIA COMPOSER\AVID FATALERRORREPORTS

MAC: VOLUME/USERS/SHARED/AVIDMEDIACOMPOSER/AVID FATALERROR REPORTS

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