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Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Understanding MediaLog
- Getting Started
- Logging Source Material
- Organizing Clips and Bins
- Creating MediaLog Output
- Avid Log Specifications
- Using Help
- Opening and Closing the Help System
- How Help Windows Work
- Finding Information with the Help Topics Dialog Box
- Using Buttons in a Help Topic
- Printing Help Topics
- Copying Information from a Help Topic
- Changing the Font Size of Help Topics
- Keeping Help on Top
- Changing the Color of Help Windows
- Adding a Note to a Help Topic
- Regulatory and Safety Notices
- Index
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Importing Standard Log Files
If you are transferring film to video for logging in MediaLog, ask
the transfer house to log the source footage during t he film-to-tape
transfer. You can import some standard film-to-tape logs directly into
MediaLog bins. Many other film-to-tape logs can be converted to
Avid format by using Avid Log Exchange and then imported into
MediaLog. A num ber of video logging systems also produce files you
can import i nto a MediaLog bin.
Compatible Logs
Use the Import command, in the File menu, to import these files to a
MediaLog bin:
• Avid Log Exchange (ALE)
• Log Right (file names that have the .ale fil e name extension)
• Excalibur (file names that have the .ale file name extension)
• Shot Lister
• MediaLog/PC
• Avid logs you create yourself, using a text editor (See “Creating
AvidLogs”onpage63for Avid log specifications.)
• Logs converted into Avid format by using Avid Log Exchange
(file names that have the .ale file name extension)
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Avid recommends that you convert any files not created on an Avid system
into Avid format by using Avid Log Exchange.
Use the Avid Log E xchange utility to convert these logs to Avid format
before importing into a MediaLog bin:
• Log Producer
• AatonBase ( file names that have the .flx file name extension)