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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
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The three basic methods for producing a bin or log that can be used later
for batch digitizing are:
• Logging directly to a bin
• Importing standard log files to a bin
• Creating Avid logs
The MediaLog tools automate the process of recording each clip’s start
and end timecodes, track selection, and other important data. You do not
need to enter information manually. However, if a source deck is
unavailable, or if you have already logged the data on paper, you can
manually record clip data in a bin.
The logging tools provided in MediaLog are also available in the Avid
editing system products. Bins that you create with MediaLog are
completely compatible with your Avid editing system product — you can
copy MediaLog bins to the Avid editing system to begin working with the
logged footage.
Configuring Decks
The MediaLog application provides a feature that will automatically
configure your attached deck. Each time you quit the MediaLog
application, the deck configuration settings are saved. If you reconnect the
deck to a different port, or attach a new deck, you must run the automatic
deck configuration feature again.
If MediaLog does not automatically sense your attached deck, you must
manually configure the deck.
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MediaLog will not override the configurations that were manually
specified.