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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
Using Help
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Never remove media drives from your Avid system when it is turned
on. Shut down the computer and then remove the drives.
Turning Off Your Equipment (Macintosh)
When you finish using your system and want to turn it off completely,
follow these steps to avoid damaging your system or media storage drives.
Quit the Avid application before turning off your equipment.
To turn off your equipment:
1. Select Apple P menu > Shut Down.
This turns off your Macintosh system. The screens on the Bin and Edit
monitors become dimmed.
2. Turn off your speakers and monitors.
3. Turn off each external drive in the chassis, and then turn off the
chassis itself.
4. Turn off all other hardware.
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Never remove media drives from your Avid system when it is turned
on. Shut down the computer and then remove the drives.
Using Help
You can get help and background information for tasks, windows, dialog
boxes, and screen objects through your Avid Help system. The Help
system is HTML based and operates in the Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer
Web browser. Avid recommends using Internet Explorer Version 5 or
later.
To open the Help system:
t Select Help > Media Log Help.
The Help system appears in a browser window.