11.7
Table Of Contents
- Avid MediaLog User’s Guide
- Contents
- Tables
- Using This Guide
- Understanding MediaLog
- Getting Started
- Working with the Project Window
- Exploring the Project Window
- Opening and Closing the Project Window
- Using the Bins Display
- Using the Settings Scroll List
- Using the Info and Usage Displays
- Changing Font and Point Size
- Customizing Your Workspace
- Viewing Keyboard Settings
- Using the Avid Calculator
- Using the Communications (Serial) Ports Tool
- Using the Console Window
- Logging Source Material
- Organizing with Bins
- Preparing to Work with Bins
- Understanding Bin Display Views
- Basic Bin Procedures
- Using Text View
- Creating MediaLog Output
- Avid Log Specifications
- Working with a Film Project
- Index
Chapter 1
Understanding MediaLog
MediaLog is a tool that helps you select and log footage before your edit
session. Although you can log footage with Avid editing system products,
using MediaLog can free up your Avid editing system for editing rather
than for logging footage. After logging shots (for example, on a laptop),
you can use your Avid editing system to digitize and edit the footage. In
addition, you can transfer film to National Television Standards
Committee (NTSC) or Phase Alternating Line (PAL) video, use MediaLog
to log the material, and then transfer the logged shots (also known as clips)
to an Avid editing system for digitizing and editing.
This chapter answers the following questions:
• What Is MediaLog?
• How Does MediaLog Work?
• What Are the Basic Logging Steps?
What Is MediaLog?
MediaLog is portable; you can install it on a laptop and on most desktop
computers that are running the Windows NT
®
, Mac OS
®
X, Windows 98,
Windows
®
98,Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating system. To log
shots from a source tape, your computer must be connected to a deck that
uses Sony
®
serial deck protocol. MediaLog allows you to control the deck
while viewing your source tapes and selecting the shots for your log. You
can also log without a deck and enter the logging information by hand.