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
Accessing and Setting Up the Logging Tool
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Drop-frame timecode appears in the Timecode indicator with semicolons
between hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. Non-drop-frame timecode
appears with colons. For more information, see “Understanding Drop-
Frame Timecode and Non-Drop-Frame Timecode” on page 82.
For information on tape
naming conventions,
see “Guidelines for
Naming Tapes” on
page 85.
3. Provide the system with a tape name in one of the following ways:
t Select the name of the tape from the list in the Select Tape dialog
box and click OK.
t Click the New button in the Select Tape dialog box if the tape is
not in the list. A new tape name line appears in the dialog box.
Type the new name and click OK.
Setting the Audio Sample Rate
Before you begin logging, you must select an audio sample rate.
To set the audio sample rate:
1. Double-click Audio Project in the Settings scroll list of the Project
window.
The Audio Project Settings dialog box opens.
2. Click the Sample Rate pop-up menu, and select either 44.1 kHz or 48
kHz.
3. Close the dialog box.
If you select Batch Digitize in your Avid editing system, and then select
the “Use the audio compression rate logged for each clip” option, you must
digitize at the same rate as the audio rate at which you logged the clips.