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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
Chapter 4
Logging Source Material
You use MediaLog to log your clips in preparation for digitizing later
when using Avid editing applications.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• Understanding Logging
• Configuring Decks
• Setting Deck Preferences
• Understanding Drop-Frame Timecode and Non-Drop-Frame
Timecode
• Preparing to Log Material
• Logging
• Logging Film Information
• Modifying Clip Information After Logging
• Creating Avid Logs
• Importing Logs
Understanding Logging
MediaLog requires that you name the clips that you log, the tapes they
came from, and their start and end timecodes. Many editors prefer to log
all their clips (shots) first and then batch digitize their material later in the
Avid editing application.